Abstractnoun
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
Epitomenoun
The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
Abstractnoun
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Epitomenoun
A representative example.
Abstractnoun
Concentrated essence of a product.
Epitomenoun
The height; the best.
Abstractnoun
(medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
Epitomenoun
A brief summary of a text.
Abstractnoun
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
Epitomenoun
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
‘[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.’;
Abstractnoun
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
Epitomenoun
A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
‘An epitome of English fashionable life.’; ‘A man so various that he seemed to beNot one, but all mankind's epitome.’;
Abstractnoun
(arts) An abstract work of art.
Epitomenoun
a standard or typical example;
‘he is the prototype of good breeding’; ‘he provided America with an image of the good father’;
Abstractnoun
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Epitomenoun
a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
Abstractadjective
(obsolete) Derived; extracted.
Epitomenoun
a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type
‘she looked the epitome of elegance and good taste’;
Abstractadjective
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
Epitomenoun
a summary of a written work; an abstract.
Abstractadjective
Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
Epitomenoun
a thing representing something else in miniature.
Abstractadjective
Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific.
Epitome
An epitome (; Greek: ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning ) is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.
‘to cut short’; ‘to the degree of.’;
Abstractadjective
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Abstractadjective
(archaic) Absent-minded.
Abstractadjective
(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Abstractadjective
Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century.
Abstractadjective
(music) Absolute.
Abstractadjective
(dance) Lacking a story.
Abstractadjective
Insufficiently factual.
Abstractadjective
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
Abstractadjective
(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Abstractadjective
(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Abstractverb
(transitive) To separate; to disengage.
Abstractverb
(transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
Abstractverb
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
Abstractverb
(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
Abstractverb
To extract by means of distillation.
Abstractverb
(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
Abstractverb
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
Abstractverb
(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
‘He was wholly abstracted by other objects.’;
Abstractverb
To perform the process of abstraction.
Abstractverb
To create abstractions.
Abstractverb
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
‘He abstracted out the square root function.’;
Abstractadjective
Withdraw; separate.
‘The more abstract . . . we are from the body.’;
Abstractadjective
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.
Abstractadjective
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.
‘A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.’;
Abstractadjective
Abstracted; absent in mind.
Abstractverb
To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
‘He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.’;
Abstractverb
To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
‘The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.’;
Abstractverb
To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
Abstractverb
To epitomize; to abridge.
Abstractverb
To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
‘Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.’;
Abstractverb
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.
Abstractverb
To perform the process of abstraction.
‘I own myself able to abstract in one sense.’;
Abstractnoun
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.
‘An abstract of every treatise he had read.’; ‘Man, the abstractOf all perfection, which the workmanshipOf Heaven hath modeled.’;
Abstractnoun
A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
Abstractnoun
An abstract term.
‘The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety."’;
Abstractnoun
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.
Abstractnoun
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance;
‘he loved her only in the abstract--not in person’;
Abstractnoun
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
Abstractverb
consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
Abstractverb
make off with belongings of others
Abstractverb
consider apart from a particular case or instance;
‘Let's abstract away from this particular example’;
Abstractverb
give an abstract (of)
Abstractadjective
existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment;
‘abstract words like `truth' and `justice'’;
Abstractadjective
not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature;
‘a large abstract painting’;
Abstractadjective
based on specialized theory;
‘a theoretical analysis’;
Abstractadjective
dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention;
‘abstract reasoning’; ‘abstract science’;
