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abstract English

Meaning abstract meaning

What does abstract mean?
Definitions in simple English

abstract Adjective

— If something is abstract, you cannot touch it, and it is difficult to imagine or think about. A lot of abstract painting uses harsh shapes and most people do not like it. More abstract ideas like "democracy" are not possible for animals. Houses and books are things you can touch. Honesty, patience and courage are abstract. — If something is abstract, it is general. — If something is abstract, it is thought of as apart from any other use with an object; it is removed from it; it is separate or abstracted. — If something is abstract, it is not practical or realistic; it is not concrete; it is theoretical; it is vague. — If something is abstract, it does not have all of the facts; it is not factual.

abstract Noun

— An abstract is a short text that tells you the main ideas of a longer text, especially of scientific papers; it is a summary of something longer. The abstract of Isaac Newton's laws of gravity may be no more than 150 words. — An abstract is an abstraction; it is an abstract word. — An abstract is a piece of art that is made in the abstract fashion of art. — An abstract is a powdered solid extract of a vegetable that is then mixed with the sugar of milk.

abstract Verb

— If you abstract something, you summarize it; you abridge it. — If you abstract something, you separate it; you remove it. — If you abstract something, you withdraw it. — If you abstract something, you make abstractions of it in art. — If you abstract something, you take it away from someone without permission; you steal it. — If you abstract something, you think about it separate from everything else; you consider it abstractly. — If you abstract something, you go through the process or abstraction.

abstract

— adjective existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment abstract words like 'truth' and 'justice' — verb consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically — noun a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance he loved her only in the abstract--not in person — verb consider apart from a particular case or instance Let's abstract away from this particular example — adjective not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature a large abstract painting — verb (= pilfer) make off with belongings of others — verb give an abstract (of) — adjective dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention abstract reasoning abstract science — noun (= outline) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

Synonyms abstract synonyms

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abstract English » English

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Topics abstract topics

What do people use abstract to talk about?
Language and thought Think Mind

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Conjugation abstract conjugation

How do you conjugate abstract?

abstract · verb

Examples abstract examples

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Simple sentences

To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
The theory is too abstract for me.
The new theory is too abstract for ordinary people.
I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian.
Goodness is abstract, a kind act is concrete.
Abstract art is something to feel.
Some abstract art is difficult to understand.
His idea is too abstract to be of practical use to us.
I made an abstract of a book.
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
For him, hunger was an abstract concept. He had always had enough food.
This description is too abstract.
Your explanation is too abstract to me.
Benevolence is abstract, a good deed is concrete.
I didn't read the paper, but I read the abstract.
What do you prefer, abstract or figurative painting?
Young children are incapable of abstract thinking.

Movie subtitles

What you will see on the screen is a picture of the various abstract images that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music.
Very abstract.
Do you hear? Let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time.
He pointed out some joker at the bar, a - a dealer in abstract art or something.
I thought it was him at the bar - a dealer in abstract art or something.
To know. abstract art?
Well, he's real abstract!
It was conceived out of memory and half-forgotten impulse and it emerged from the shadows of abstract emotions until it was born, full-grown from the mechanical realities of my fingertips.
Whatever the odds, I'm determined to abstract that woman.
I get the feeling of something abstract, if you see what I mean?
It's so abstract I can't even consider that it applies to me.
Oh, Barrett has installed my new abstract in the garden.
Still abstract?
How odd! It can't be abstract if it resembles his eyes. Which aren't abstract, so that picture sees you as I do.
I'd like to devote my remaining years to abstract science.
Let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time.
A dealer in abstract art or something.
Well, he's real abstract.
Did you see the abstract art show?
Three metal ellipses, suspended and weightless, revealing the abstract geometry of an image that is. the reality of a poet.
No. No, with your arrest. I get the feeling of something abstract, if you see what I mean?
It's totally abstract.
Alphonse, my son, when it comes to conning people the shrewdest operations are nothing do you hear me? Nothing! compared to abstract painting.
It was conceived out of memory and half-forgotten impulse, and it emerged from the shadows of abstract emotions, until it was born full-grown from. the mechanical realities of my fingertips.
That nothing abstract or experimental interests them.
Abstract?
They're like abstract paintings.
You can be so abstract when you talk.
Too abstract for you?
Noone has ever bought any of your abstract paintings.
Because it's completely abstract, and thus inhuman.
The abstract concepts of an intellectual society are beyond their comprehension.
The abstract concepts of loyalty and leadership seem perfectly clear to Vanna.

News and current affairs

In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.
They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
But, to lawyers like the ICC prosecutor, the abstract claims of justice are more vivid than any concrete duty of protection.
The Miliband race was an extreme example of what might be called counter-nepotism - the attempt to abstract the politician from all private attachments.
In the French presidential campaign, everyone knew what Le Pen stood for; but neither Chirac nor Jospin had a clear program to offer, just vague, abstract generalities.
Popper pointed out that an open society can be endangered by abstract, universal ideologies like communism and fascism.
It would be disastrous to destroy the emergent Iraqi-Kurdish entity in the name of an abstract and no-longer existent greater Iraq.
But, it might be said, the abstract ethical idea that all humans are entitled to equal consideration cannot govern the way we look at the duties of a political leader.
It nearly kills you, but you get the book out - only an abstract of the magnum opus that you had planned - by the end of the next year.
Such questions were never so urgent in the past, partly because fundamental democratic values were less abstract than they seem nowadays.
They took an abstract, outsize challenge and distilled it into achievable ends.
They believe that no purely abstract argument can get us to do anything that we do not want to do.
In the last three decades, America's male-dominated politics has become increasingly wonky, abstract, and professionalized.
Do we have to return to the abstract reasoning of Mandeville and some of his successors, including John Maynard Keynes, who thought that there were reasons to expect that austerity would produce depressions?
There is no abstract theory that can predict how people will react to an austerity program.
For them, past horror is abstract; only the present horror can be felt.
And Germany does not represent just an abstract hope; the country is welcoming more migrants than any of its European counterparts, with Chancellor Angela Merkel having announced that the country will take at least 800,000 asylum-seekers this year.
In an abstract sense, this is what Israel is doing right now.

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