| abstract | |
| 1. n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. | |
| 2. n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items. | |
| 3. n. Concentrated essence of a product. | |
| 4. n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. | |
| 5. n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form. | |
| 6. n. (arts) An abstract work of art. | |
| 7. n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted. | |
| 9. adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. | |
| 10. adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object. | |
| 11. adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific. | |
| 12. adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. | |
| 13. adj. (archaic) Absent-minded. | |
| 14. adj. (arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. | |
| 15. adj. (arts, often, capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century. | |
| 16. adj. (music) Absolute. | |
| 17. adj. (dance) Lacking a story. | |
| 18. adj. Insufficiently factual.(R:MW3 1976, page=8) | |
| 19. adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied. | |
| 20. adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person. | |
| 21. adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects. | |
| 22. v. To separate; to disengage. | |
| 23. v. To remove; to take away; withdraw. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. | |
| 25. v. To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize. | |
| 26. v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation. | |
| 27. v. To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality. | |
| 28. v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire. | |
| 29. v. To draw off (interest or attention). | |
| He was wholly abstracted by other objects. | |
| 30. v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction. | |
| 31. v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions. | |
| 32. v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out". | |
| He abstracted out the square root function. | |
