Meaning

12 senses
  1. (transitive)To separate; to disengage.

  2. To separate; to disengage.

    (transitive)To remove; to take away; withdraw.

    entziehen

  3. (euphemistic, transitive)To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

  4. (transitive)To draw off (interest or attention).

    He was wholly abstracted by other objects.

  5. (figuratively, intransitive, literally, reflexive, transitive)To withdraw oneself; to retire.

  6. (transitive)To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

    consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

  7. To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

    (transitive)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.

  8. (intransitive, rare, transitive)To perform the process of abstraction.

    абстраги́роватьabstragírovatʹ

  9. (intransitive, transitive)To create abstractions.

  10. (intransitive, transitive)To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with “out”.

    He abstracted out the square root function.

  11. (transitive)To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.

  12. To separate; to disengage.

    (obsolete, transitive)To extract by means of distillation.

Examples

95 sentences
  1. The theory is too abstract for me.

    Ця теорія занадто абстрактна для мене. — deniko

    ruЭта теория слишком абстрактна для меня. — Biga

    deDie Theorie ist zu abstrakt für mich. — MUIRIEL

  2. Are animals capable of abstract thought?

  3. Some abstract art is difficult to understand.

    ruНекоторые проявления абстрактного искусства трудно понять. — odexed

    deManche abstrakte Kunst ist schwer zu verstehen. — jast

  4. Young children are incapable of abstract thinking.

    ruМаленькие дети неспособны к абстрактному мышлению. — Wezel

    deKleine Kinder sind zu abstraktem Denken nicht in der Lage. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. His idea is too abstract to be of practical use to us.

    ruЕго идея слишком абстрактна, чтобы мы могли её применить на практике. — maks

    deSeine Idee ist zu abstrakt, um von praktischem Nutzen für uns zu sein. — alik_farber

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to perform the process of abstraction:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to separate; to disengage:
to consider abstractly:
to remove; to take away; to withdraw:

Origin

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle o

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

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Forms

abstracts, abstracting, abstracted, abstracted
Base formabstract · to abstract
3rd person singularabstracts
Present participleabstracting
Past simpleabstracted
Past participleabstracted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyabstract
he, she, itabstracts

Past simpleLesson

all personsabstracted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave abstracted
he, she, ithas abstracted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill abstract

Synonyms

19 synonyms
to filch, purloin, or steal:stealA2filchpurloin
to abridge, epitomize, or summarize:summarizeB1abridgeepitomize
to remove, separate, take away, or withdraw:removeB1separateB2withdrawB2take away
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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