Definition of abstract

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Abstract (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.

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Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..
Aphorism :: Aphorism (n.) A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6..
Entitative :: Entitative (a.) Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
Abstractive :: Abstractive (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Concrete :: Concrete (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract..
Extract :: Extract (n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4..
Number :: Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.
Abstractitious :: Abstractitious (a.) Obtained from plants by distillation.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
Inabstracted :: Inabstracted (a.) Not abstracted.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word..
Comprehension :: Comprehension (n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles..
Notional :: Notional (a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions..
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