abstract
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Is abstract a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
2. (art) An abstract work of art.
3. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.Synonyms: abridgment, compendium, epitome, synopsis
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.obsolete
2. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.Examples: "The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light."archaic
3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.Synonyms: conceptual, ideal, imaginary, incorporeal, intangible, nonempirical, theoreticalAntonyms: actual, concrete, corporeal, empirical
4. (archaic) Absent-minded.Examples: "Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw, abstract, as in a trance"; "White and abstract-looking, he sat and ate his dinner."archaic
5. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.Examples: "But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction."capitalizedoften
6. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.Examples: "He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices."transitive
2. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.Examples: "The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages."Synonyms: remove, separate, take away, withdrawtransitive
3. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.Examples: "Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness."; "The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel."; "Section 13 of the 1968 Act enacts a separate offence of dishonestly abstracting electricity. The separate offence is needed because electricity, like other forms of energy such as heat, is not property."Synonyms: filch, purloin, stealeuphemistictransitive
4. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.Examples: "Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?"obsoletetransitive
5. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.Examples: "The young stranger had been abstracted and silent."; "He was wholly abstracted by other objects."transitive
6. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.figurativelyintransitiveliterallyreflexivetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary