Concentrated essence of a product.
A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
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.
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.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
To use a shoehorn.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.