abstract

1. a. Withdraw; separate. Source: opted

2. a. 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. Source: opted

3. a. word/expressing">Expressing a word/particular">particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. Source: opted

4. a. Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Source: opted

5. a. Abstracted; absent in mind. Source: opted

6. a. To withdraw; to separate; to take away. Source: opted

7. a. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. Source: opted

8. a. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. Source: opted

9. a. To epitomize; to abridge. Source: opted

10. a. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Source: opted

11. 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. Source: opted

12. v. t. To perform the process of abstraction. Source: opted

13. 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. Source: opted

14. a. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. Source: opted

15. a. An abstract term. Source: opted

16. 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. Source: opted

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