abstract

Meanings

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
An abstract work of art.
A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

Derived; extracted.
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
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.
Absent-minded.
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Insufficiently factual.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

To separate; to disengage.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
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.
To extract by means of distillation.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
To draw off (interest or attention).
To perform the process of abstraction.
To create abstractions.
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō, formed from abs- + trahō. The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

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