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abstract

English

  1. 🔊 existing only in the mind
    “abstract words like `truth' and `justice'”
  2. 🔊 dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
    “abstract reasoning”
  3. 🔊 not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
    “a large abstract painting”
  4. 🔊 a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
    “he loved her only in the abstract--not in person”
  5. 🔊 a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
  6. 🔊 consider a concept without thinking of a specific example
  7. 🔊 consider apart from a particular case or instance
    “Let's abstract away from this particular example”
  8. 🔊 give an abstract (of)
  9. 🔊 make off with belongings of others

Spanish

  1. 🔊 abstraer to abstract

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