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Definitions of abstract
a. - Withdraw; separate. ²
a. - Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. ²
a. - Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. ²
a. - Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. ²
a. - Abstracted; absent in mind. ²
a. - To withdraw; to separate; to take away. ²
a. - To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. ²
a. - To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. ²
a. - To epitomize; to abridge. ²
a. - To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. ²
a. - To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used. ²
v. t. - To perform the process of abstraction. ²
a. - That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. ²
a. - A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. ²
a. - An abstract term. ²
a. - A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. ²

The word "abstract" uses 8 letters: A A B C R S T T.

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