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abstract
Adjective
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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.
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If something is abstract, it is general.
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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.
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If something is abstract, it is not practical or realistic; it is not concrete; it is theoretical; it is vague.
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If something is abstract, it does not have all of the facts; it is not factual.
abstract
Noun
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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.
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An abstract is an abstraction; it is an abstract word.
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An abstract is a piece of art that is made in the abstract fashion of art.
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An abstract is a powdered solid extract of a vegetable that is then mixed with the sugar of milk.
abstract
Verb
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If you abstract something, you summarize it; you abridge it.
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If you abstract something, you separate it; you remove it.
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If you abstract something, you withdraw it.
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If you abstract something, you make abstractions of it in art.
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If you abstract something, you take it away from someone without permission; you steal it.
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If you abstract something, you think about it separate from everything else; you consider it abstractly.
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If you abstract something, you go through the process or abstraction.
function
Noun
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Something or someone's function is its purpose or its job.
The army sometimes performs a policing function.
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A function is an organised event.
I met Sylvia at a church function last week.
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If mathX/math is a function of mathY/math, then mathX/math exists because of or is affected by mathY/math
The speed of the computer is a function of its main processor.
When you see, mathY=f(X)/math, you read it, "mathY/math is a function of mathX/math". Here the value of mathY/math depends on the value assigned to the variable mathX/math.
function
Verb
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If something is functioning, it is working and is not completely broken.
Her heart stopped, but her brain continued to function.
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If something functions as mathX/math, it does the job of mathX/math.
In this sentence, "sentence" functions as the subject.