Abstract
Abstract [1]
(1): (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
(2): (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
(3): (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; - opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
(4): (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
(5): (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
(6): (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
(7): (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
(8): (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
(9): (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
(10): (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
(11): (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
(12): (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
(13): (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
(14): (a.) An abstract term.
(15): (a.) Withdraw; separate.
(16): (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
