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abstract

Definition

  • noun: a brief written statement of the main points or facts in a longer report, speech, etc.
  • noun: a summary of points (as of a writing) usually presented in skeletal form
  • verb: to consider apart from application to or association with a particular instance
  • verb: to make a summary of the main parts of (a report, speech, etc.)
  • adjective: relating to or involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects, or actions
  • adjective: disassociated from any specific instance
  • synonyms: abstruse, remove, summary

Examples

  • She accused him of 'abstracting' [='pinching'] some money from her purse.

  • The word “poem” is concrete, the word “poetry” is 'abstract'.

  • Data for the study was 'abstracted from' hospital records.

Movie quotes

  • (..) I'll have thee speak out the rest soon Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? And let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time - My lord, I will use them according to their desert - For God's sake man, better Use every man after his desert (..)
    2015 Hamlet