abstract

Definitions

1. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
2. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
3. Concentrated essence of a product.
4. A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
5. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
6. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
7. An abstract work of art.
8. A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

Equivalents

Examples

“An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read⟳.”

“Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.”

“Thus the concrete like⟳ has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have⟳ the abstracts, paternity and filiation.”

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