We have spotted ABSTRACT (8 Letters) a total of 3 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with ABSTRACT and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
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Withdraw; separate. |
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Considered apart from any application to a particular
object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract
truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. |
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Expressing a particular property of an object viewed
apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to
concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. |
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Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general
as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. |
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Abstracted; absent in mind. |
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To withdraw; to separate; to take away. |
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To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his
was wholly abstracted by other objects. |
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To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to
consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or
attribute. |
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To epitomize; to abridge. |
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To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to
abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. |
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To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a
substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense
extract is now more generally used. |
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To perform the process of abstraction. |
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That which comprises or concentrates in itself the
essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things.
Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of
a statement; a brief. |
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A state of separation from other things; as, to consider
a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. |
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An abstract term. |
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A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed
with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract
represents two parts of the original substance. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
Usage among publishers:
- Universal: Oct 3, 2024
- New York Times: Jan 25, 2024
- Thomas Joseph: May 31, 2022