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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abstract
▶adjective /ˈabstrakt/
- 1 theoretical rather than physical or concrete.
■ (of a noun) denoting an idea, quality, or state.
- 2 relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality.
- 1 extract or remove: plans to abstract more water from streams.
- 2 (as adj. abstracted) not concentrating.
- 3 make a written summary of.
- 4 consider separately from something else.
- 1 a summary of a book or article.
- 2 an abstract work of art.
– derivatives
abstractedly adverb,
abstractly adverb,
abstractor noun.
abstractedly adverb,
abstractly adverb,
abstractor noun.
– origin ME: from L. abstract-, abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.
'abstract' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstract expressionism
- abstraction
- abstractionism
- abstract of title
- autism
- body
- concept
- concrete
- concretize
- connotation
- constructivism
- docket
- -en
- -ess
- exponent
- fabric
- form
- Hindutva
- -ice
- -icity
- ideal
- incarnation
- -ine
- instantiate
- langue
- lay
- manufacture
- mathematics
- metaphysical
- metaphysics
- morality play
- neoplasticism
- non-figurative
- non-objective
- of
- op art
- personalize
- Platonism
- prosopopoeia
- psychedelic
- realism
- reify
- sculpture
- stabile
- suprematism
- symbol
- tempt
- -tude
- type
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display (an abstract or concrete noun)
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