abstract
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/ noun B2- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Plural abstracts
From the library
Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.
When you fly at thirty thousand feet, the world below is reduced to an abstract, disconnected patchwork of colors.
Without the natural rhythm of daylight to regulate our biological clocks, the passage of time becomes strangely fluid and abstract.
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