Canadian English Meaning of abstract
abstract
Other Canadian English words related to abstract
- conceptual
- metaphysical
- theoretical
- theoretical
- hypothetical
- ideal
- ideational
- intellectual
- mental
- notional
- speculative
- spiritual
- conjectural
- Cosmic
- ethereal
- immaterial
- imperceptible
- Impractical
- incorporeal
- insubstantial
- intangible
- invisible
- nonmaterial
- Non-physical
- Romantic
- transcendent
- transcendental
- unreal
- utopian
- cosmic
Nearest Words of abstract
- abstract art => Abstract art
- abstract artist => Abstract artist
- abstract entity => Abstract entity
- abstract expressionism => Abstract expressionism
- abstract thought => Abstract thought
- abstracted => abstract
- abstractedly => abstractly
- abstractedness => Abstractness
- abstracter => abstractor
- abstracting => abstracting
Definitions and Meaning of abstract in English
abstract (n)
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
abstract (v)
consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
make off with belongings of others
consider apart from a particular case or instance
give an abstract (of)
abstract (a)
existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
abstract (s)
not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
abstract (a.)
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.
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.
abstract (v. t.)
To perform the process of abstraction.
FAQs About the word abstract
abstract
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance, a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory, consider a concept without thinking
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concrete,physical,actual,appreciable,defined,definite,Detectable,discernible,distinct,material
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