An abstract work of art.
A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
Concentrated essence of a product.
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
Lacking a story.
Absolute.
Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
Insufficiently factual.
To draw off (interest or attention).
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
To separate; to disengage.
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
To create abstractions.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
To perform the process of abstraction.
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
Terrain.
The pit of a theatre.
A soccer stadium.
Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
The bottom of a body of water.
Background, context, framework, surroundings.
The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
Soil, earth.
A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
To place something on the ground.
To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
Processed by grinding.