Abstract vs. Introduction — What's the Difference?

Considered apart from concrete existence

The action of introducing something

Not applied or practical; theoretical.

A formal presentation of one person to another, in which each is told the other's name

Difficult to understand; abstruse

A thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech

Denoting something that is immaterial, conceptual, or nonspecific, as an idea or quality

The act or process of introducing or the state of being introduced.

Impersonal, as in attitude or views.

A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.

Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation

Something recently introduced; an innovation

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

A preface, as to a book.

Something abstract.

(Music) A short preliminary passage in a larger movement or work.

An abstract of title.

A basic introductory text or course of study.

To take away; remove

The act or process of introducing.

To remove without permission; steal

A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.

To consider (an idea, for example) as separate from particular examples or objects

An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.

(ăbstrăkt′) To write a summary of; summarize

A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.

To create artistic abstractions of (something else, such as a concrete object or another style)

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.

The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.

That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.

Concentrated essence of a product.

A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.

(medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.

The first section of a communication

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.

The act of beginning something new;

The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.

Formally making a person known to another or to the public

(arts) An abstract work of art.

A basic or elementary instructional text

(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

A new proposal;

(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

The act of putting one thing into another

Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

Insufficiently factual.

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

(grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.

(archaic) Absent-minded.

(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20^th century.

(music) Absolute.

(dance) Lacking a story.

Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

(transitive) To separate; to disengage.

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

To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

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

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.

To extract by means of distillation.

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

To withdraw oneself; to retire.

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

To perform the process of abstraction.

To create abstractions.

To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

Withdraw; separate.

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.

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.

Abstracted; absent in mind.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.

To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.

To epitomize; to abridge.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

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.

To perform the process of abstraction.

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.

A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

An abstract term.

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.

A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance;

A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

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

Make off with belongings of others

Consider apart from a particular case or instance;

Give an abstract (of)

Existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment;

Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature;

Based on specialized theory;

Dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention;