Meaning of abstract | Babel Free

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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