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Definition of Abstract

Abstract Withdraw; separate. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. 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. Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Abstracted; absent in mind. To withdraw; to separate; to take away. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. To epitomize; to abridge. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. 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. To perform the process of abstraction. 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. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. An abstract term. 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. Related Definitions: Abridge, Absent, Abstract, Abstracted, Abstraction, Abstruse, An, Any, Apart, Application, As, Associated, Attention, Attribute, Away, Book, Brief, By, Chemical, Concrete, Consider, Considered, Constitute, Contemplate, Difficult, Dishonestly, Distillation, Draw, Epitome, Epitomize, Essential, Existing, Expressing, Extract, Faculty, From, General, Generally, Goods, Hence, His, Honesty, Ideal, Ideas, In, Interest, Is, It, Itself, Matter, Mental, Milk, Mind, Mixed, More, Money, Name, Now, Numbers, Object, Of, Off, One, Only, Operation, Opposed, Or, Original, Other, Parcel, Part, Particular, Perform, Powdered, Process, Properties, Property, Proportion, Purloin, Qualities, Quality, Reptile, Respect, Resulting, Secretly, Sense, Separate, Separated, Separation, Several, Solid, Soluble, Specifically, State, Statement, Subject, Substance, Such, Sugar, Summary, Take, Term, That, The, Thing, This, Till, To, Treatise, Truth, Two, Used, Vegetable, Viewed, Volatile, Was, Which, Wholly, With, Withdraw, Word

Abstract Quotations Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Albert Camus When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Albert Einstein All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. Denis Diderot To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. Honore de Balzac As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. Lee Krasner

Abstract Translations abstract in Afrikaans is oorsig abstract in Danish is slutte, tage bort abstract in Dutch is abstract, afgetrokken abstract in German is abstrakt, abstrahieren, abstrahiere abstract in Italian is astratto abstract in Spanish is descolgar, resumen, abstracto, prescindir abstract in Swedish is sammandrag, abstrakt

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