Definition of abstract

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Abstract (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things..

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Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction..
Abstractness :: Abstractness (n.) The quality of being abstract.
Inabstracted :: Inabstracted (a.) Not abstracted.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
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..
Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Idea :: Idea (n.) A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract..
Entitative :: Entitative (a.) Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute..
Abstractitious :: Abstractitious (a.) Obtained from plants by distillation.
Absent-minded :: Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..
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..
Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
Remote :: Remote (superl.) Separate; abstracted.
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
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.
Precis :: Precis (n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Abstracted :: Abstracted (imp. & p. p.) of Abstrac.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used..
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