Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
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 abstract work of art.
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.
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.
An object, a member of a group or class.
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
A genuine article.
A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.