Word Finder - abstract

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An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.

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Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.

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An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.

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The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.

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An abstract work of art.

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A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

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To separate; to disengage.

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To remove; to take away; withdraw.

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To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

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To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.

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To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.

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To extract by means of distillation.

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To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

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To withdraw oneself; to retire.

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To draw off (interest or attention).

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He was wholly abstracted by other objects.

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To perform the process of abstraction.

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To create abstractions.

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To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

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He abstracted out the square root function.

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Derived; extracted.

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Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

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Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

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• conceptual
• ideal
• imaginary
• incorporeal
• intangible
• nonempirical
• theoretical

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Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

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• abstruse

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Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

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• ascriptive
• attributive

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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.

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• general
• generalized
• generic
• nonspecific
• representational

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Absent-minded.

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Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

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Insufficiently factual.

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• formal

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Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

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• conceptual
• theoretical

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(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

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Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

They had no abstract ideas; in their minds all was concrete, visible and tangible.

His abstract submission met the deadline.

Can I have an abstract of the article?

Do you have an abstract of a paper or presentation you would like to give?

Choose five abstract nouns relating to recent conversational themes.

He presented abstract concepts with empirical data.

He was searching for an abstract expressionist painting by de Kooning.

Thus Descartes gave to modern geometry that abstract and general character in which consists its superiority to the geometry of the ancients.

It does not appear, however, that a regularly organized or numerous Orphic sect ever existed, nor that Orphism ever became popular; it was too abstract, too full of symbolism.

He asked me how I had taught Helen adjectives and the names of abstract ideas like goodness and happiness.

The neuter term brahma is used in the Rigveda both in the abstract sense of "devotion, worship," and in the concrete sense of "devotional rite, prayer, hymn."

Abstract expressionism was a New York painting movement of the 1940's with its artistic roots based upon abstract art.

Masudi, a great traveller who knew from personal experience all the countries between Spain and China, described the plains, mountains and seas, the dynasties and peoples, in his Meadows of Gold, an abstract made by himself of his larger work News of the Time.

The first, De Sancta Trinitate, is addressed to Symmachus (Domino Patri Symmacho), and the result of the short discussion, which is of an abstract nature, and deals partly with the ten categories, is that unity is predicated absolutely, or, in regard to the substance of the Deity, trinity is predicated relatively.

Demea, who is willing to give up his abstract proof, brings forward the ordinary theological topic, man's consciousness of his own imperfection, misery and dependent condition.

It is not God as abstract, infinite and eternal, as the far-away creator of the universe, or even as the ruler of the world, which Paul worships, but it is God revealed in Jesus Christ, the Father of Jesus Christ, the grace and mercy in Jesus Christ which deliver from evil.

Of speculative interest the ordinary Roman had as little as may be; for abstract discussion and controversy he cared nothing.

Chemistry is abstract; mineralogy is concrete.

But at length many of them became formal logicians, who held that logic is the investigation of formal thinking, or consistent conception, judgment and reasoning; that it shows how we infer formal truths of consistency without material truth of signifying things; that, as the science of the form or process, it must entirely abstract from the matter, or objects, of thought; and that it does not tell us how we infer from experience.

The research into abstract qualities, the fundamental problem of physics, comes near to the metaphysical study of forms, which indeed differs from the first only in being more general, and in having as its results a form strictly so called, i.e.

But its inquiries may be directed either towards concrete bodies or towards abstract qualities.

We thus at last attain a definite conclusion with regard to forms, and it appears clear that in Bacon's belief the true function of science was the search for a few fundamental physical qualities, highly abstract and general, the combinations of which give rise to the simple natures and complex phenomena around us.

In contrast to More's Utopia, the work is cold and abstract, and lacking in practical detail.

The duty of the enqueteurs was to make an abstract of the written documents and report on them.

Abstract We derive a method for inverting emission-line profiles formed in supernova ejecta.

In June 1835 Airy was appointed Astronomer Royal in succession to John Pond, and thus commenced that long career of wisely directed and vigorously sustained industry at the national observatory which, even more perhaps than his investigations in abstract science or theoretical astronomy, constitutes his chief title to fame.

They were willing enough to admit the abstract claims of the Empire; but in the world of feudalism there was a multitude of established customs and rights which rudely conflicted with these claims, and in action, remote and abstract considerations gave way before concrete and present realities.

They continued to look on the whole machinery of government, emperor and army, church and police, as their natural enemies, and remained completely under the bondage of the abstract theories of the Socialists, just as much as fifty years ago the German bourgeois were controlled by the Liberal theories.

For this reason the book is at once the most brilliant and the most difficult of Hegel's works - the most brilliant because it is to some degree an autobiography of Hegel's mind - not the abstract record of a logical evolution, but the real history of an intellectual growth; the most difficult because, instead of treating the rise of intelligence (from its first appearance in contrast with the real world to its final recognition of its presence in, and rule over, all things) as a purely subjective process, it exhibits this rise as wrought out in historical epochs, national characteristics, forms of culture and faith, and philosophical systems. The theme is identical with the introduction to the Encyklopddie; but it is treated in a very different style.

There were philosophic and philanthropic elements in his political faith which will always lead some to class him as a visionary and fanatic; but although he certainly indulged at times in dreams at which one may still smile, he was not, properly speaking, a visionary; nor can he with justice be stigmatized as a fanatic. He felt fervently, was not afraid to risk all on the conclusions to which his heart and his mind led him, declared himself with openness and energy; and he spoke and even wrote his conclusions, how ever bold or abstract, without troubling to detail his reasoning or clip his off-hand speculations.

He was not concerned with speculative questions about God, nor with abstract theories of his relationship to the soul and to the world.

In this they differed from the Eleatics and the Pythagoreans who thought in the abstract, and explained knowledge and existence in metaphysical terminology.

The extent of the material thus introduced out of course may be seen from the following abstract.

For, just as the Roman Church as a whole preserves in the spiritual sphere the spirit and much of the organization of the Roman Empire, so the administration of the Curia carries on the tradition of Roman government, with its reverence for precedent and its practice of deciding questions, not on their supposed abstract merits, but in accordance with the rules of law as defined in the codes or by previous decisions.

If Coke's reports show completer mastery of technical details, greater knowledge of precedent, and more of the dogged grasp of the letter than do Bacon's legal writings, there can be no dispute that the latter exhibit an infinitely more comprehensive intelligence of the abstract principles of jurisprudence, with a richness and ethical fulness that more than compensate for their lack of dry legal detail.

The philosophies which are " redargued " are divided into three classes, the sophistical, of which the best example is Aristotle, who, according to Bacon, forces nature into his abstract schemata and thinks to explain by definitions; the empirical, which from few and limited experiments leaps at once to general conclusions; and the superstitious, which corrupts philosophy by the introduction of poetical and theological notions.

A thing is no longer, as Plato once thought, hot or hard or bright by partaking in abstract heat or hardness or brightness, but by containing within its own substance the material of these qualities, conceived as air-currents in various degrees of tension.

As the powers and duties of consuls vary with the particular commercial interests they have to protect, and the civilization of the state in whose territory they reside, instead of abstract definition, we summarize the provisions on this subject of the British Merchant Shipping Acts.

But the intenser religious life before which deism fell was also a revolt against the abstract and argumentative orthodoxy of the time.

Though so typically a scholar and abstract thinker on the one hand and on the other a mystic, Edwards is best known to the present generation as a preacher of hell fire.

But in the great Sala dell' Asse (or della Torre) abundant traces of Leonardo's own hand were found, in the shape of a decoration of intricate geometrical knot or plait work .combined with natural leafage; the abstract puzzle-pattern, of a kind in which Leonardo took peculiar pleasure, intermingling in cunning play and contrast with a pattern of living boughs and leaves exquisitely drawn in free and vital growth.

Although President Polk immediately urged the formation of a territorial government for Oregon, the bill introduced for this purpose was held up in the Senate on account of the opposition of Southern leaders, who were seeking to maintain the abstract principle that slavery could not be constitutionally prohibited in any territory of the United States, although they had no hope of Oregon ever becoming slave territory.

Jacobi, accepting the law of reason and consequent as the fundamental rule of demonstrative reasoning, and as the rule explicitly followed by Spinoza, points out that, if we proceed by applying this principle so as to recede from particular and qualified facts to the more general and abstract conditions, we land ourselves, not in the notion of an active, intelligent creator of the system of things, but in the notion of an all-comprehensive, indeterminate Nature, devoid of will or intelligence.

Arithmetic is usually divided into Abstract Arithmetic and Concrete Arithmetic, the former dealing with numbers and the latter with concrete objects.

The division into abstract and concrete, for instance, is logical, if the former is taken as relating to number and the latter to numerical quantity (§ I I).

Number is concrete or abstract according as it does or does not relate to particular objects.

The Abstract Framework's main point is about building consensus across the different spec bodies.

This intellectual, precisely messy work takes Abstract expressionism and beats it at its own game.

In other words, developing empirical generalizations informed by abstract theory.

In primitive religions inclusive of almost every serious offence even in fields now regarded as merely social or political, its scope is gradually lessened to a single part of one section of ecclesiastical criminology, following inversely the development of the idea of holiness from the concrete to the abstract, from fetishism to mysticism.