abstract
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
business
computing
dance
dancing
engineering
entertainment
grammar
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
real-estate
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
Inflected forms:
form: abstracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more abstract
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: abstracter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abstract
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: abstractest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: abstracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abstracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: abstractest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: abstractedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: abstracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abstracteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: abstract
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: abstracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abstracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
pos: noun
examples: An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.
gloss: Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
pos: noun
examples: Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
gloss: Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
pos: noun
gloss: An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
pos: noun
examples: Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.
gloss: The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
pos: noun
gloss: An abstract work of art.
pos: noun
gloss: A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
pos: noun
gloss: Derived; extracted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
gloss: Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
pos: adj
examples: Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
gloss: Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
pos: adj
gloss: Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
pos: adj
examples: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
gloss: Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
pos: adj
gloss: Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
pos: adj
examples: The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
Abstract words such as glory, honour, courage, or hallow were obscene.
gloss: Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
pos: adj
examples: A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing...
gloss: Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
pos: adj
examples: A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing.[…]A practice, however, has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
Given their opposition to innate ideas, philosophers in the empiricist tradition have sought to explain how the rich and multifarious representational capacities that human beings possess derive from experience. A key explanatory strategy in this tradition, tracing back at least as far as John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, is to maintain that the acquisition of many of these capacities can be accounted for by a process of abstraction. In fact, Locke himself claims in the Essay that abstraction is the source of all general ideas (1690/1975, II, xii, §1). Although Berkeley and Hume were highly critical of Locke, abstraction as a source of generality has been a lasting theme in empiricist thought.
gloss: Absent-minded.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw,
abstract, as in a trance
White and abstract-looking, he sat and ate his dinner.
gloss: Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
often
examples: But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction.
gloss: Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
pos: adj
gloss: Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
pos: adj
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
examples: Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel.
Section 13 of the 1968 Act enacts a separate offence of dishonestly abstracting electricity. The separate offence is needed because electricity, like other forms of energy such as heat, is not property.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
literally
reflexive
transitive
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
transitive
examples: I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To separate; to disengage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He abstracted out the square root function.
gloss: To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: remove
separate
take away
withdraw
Related words: reify
abstraction
abstractive
abstractum
Derived words: abstract of title
abstract algebra
abstract analytic number theory
abstract art
abstract class
abstract data type
abstract expressionism
abstract expressionist
abstract factory class
abstract factory pattern
abstract harmonic analysis
abstract idea
abstractification
abstractify
abstractization
abstractize
abstract language
abstractly
abstract method
abstract model
abstract music
abstractness
abstract nonsense
abstract noun
abstract number
abstract numbers
abstract plane
abstract polytope
abstract publication
abstract term
abstract terms
abstract type
abstract universal
abstract verb
autoabstract
in the abstract
microabstract
nonabstract
overabstract
reabstract
semiabstract
superabstract
typestract
unabstract
abstractable
abstract away from
abstracted
abstracter
abstractor
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: xifra
lang: Dutch
word: essentie
lang: Finnish
word: aineellistuma
lang: Hindi
word: निचोड
roman: nicoḍ
lang: Indonesian
word: abstrak
lang: Indonesian
word: sari
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sammenfatning
lang: Romanian
word: concentrat
lang: Romanian
word: esență
lang: Dutch
word: algemeen
lang: Finnish
word: yleinen
lang: French
word: abstrait
lang: Japanese
word: 抽象的
roman: chūshōteki
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: generell
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: abstrakt
lang: Portuguese
word: abstrato
lang: Bulgarian
word: отделям
roman: otdeljam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отнемам
roman: otnemam
lang: Dutch
word: afzonderen
lang: Finnish
word: eristää
lang: Finnish
word: erottaa
lang: French
word: abstraire
lang: German
word: trennen
lang: Greek
word: αποσπώ
roman: apospó
lang: Greek
word: διαχωρίζω
roman: diachorízo
lang: Hindi
word: अलग करना
roman: alag karnā
lang: Hindi
word: निकाल देना
roman: nikāl denā
lang: Indonesian
word: mengabstrakkan
lang: Italian
word: rimuovere
lang: Italian
word: sottrarre
lang: Italian
word: estrarre
lang: Japanese
word: 取る
roman: toru
lang: Latvian
word: atšķirt
lang: Latvian
word: nošķirt
lang: Marathi
word: वेगळे करणे
roman: vegḷe karṇe
lang: Marathi
word: काढून टाकणे
roman: kāḍhūn ṭākṇe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: separere
lang: Polish
word: odciągać
lang: Polish
word: odciągnąć
lang: Portuguese
word: abstrair
lang: Portuguese
word: retirar
lang: Quechua
word: llulmiy
lang: Spanish
word: abstraer
lang: Spanish
word: retirar
lang: Swedish
word: abstrahera
lang: Swedish
word: skilja av
lang: Swedish
word: skilja ut
lang: Swedish
word: ta bort
lang: Armenian
word: աբստրահել
roman: abstrahel
lang: Dutch
word: abstraheren
lang: Esperanto
word: abstrakti
lang: Finnish
word: tuumia
lang: German
word: abstrahieren
lang: Hindi
word: अमूर्तरूपसे लेना
roman: amūrtarūpse lenā
lang: Hungarian
word: absztrahál
lang: Marathi
word: अमूर्तपणे घेणे
roman: amūrtapṇe gheṇe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fundere
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: spekulere
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: filosofere
lang: Persian
word: انتزاعیدن
lang: Yiddish
word: אַבסטראַהירן
roman: abstrahirn