Abstract vs. Steal — What's the Difference?

Considered apart from concrete existence

Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it

Not applied or practical; theoretical.

Move somewhere quietly or surreptitiously

Difficult to understand; abstruse

A bargain

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

An act of stealing something

Impersonal, as in attitude or views.

To take (the property of another) without right or permission.

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

To present or use (someone else's words or ideas) as one's own.

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

To get or take secretly or artfully

Something abstract.

To give or enjoy (a kiss) that is unexpected or unnoticed.

An abstract of title.

To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer

To take away; remove

(Baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.

To remove without permission; steal

To steal another's property.

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

To move, happen, or elapse stealthily or unobtrusively

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

(Baseball) To steal a base.

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

The act of stealing.

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.

(Slang) A bargain.

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

(Baseball) A stolen base.

Concentrated essence of a product.

(Basketball) An act of gaining possession of the ball from an opponent.

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

(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

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

To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

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

(transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

(arts) An abstract work of art.

To acquire at a low price.

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

(transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.

(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

(intransitive) To move silently or secretly.

Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

(transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.

Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

Insufficiently factual.

To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.

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

To dispossess

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

To borrow for a short moment.

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

Take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing

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

The act of stealing.

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.

(slang) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price.

(archaic) Absent-minded.

A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.

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

(baseball) A stolen base.

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

(curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.

(music) Absolute.

(computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

(dance) Lacking a story.

A handle; a stale, or stele.

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

To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.

(transitive) To separate; to disengage.

To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

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

To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

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

To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; - with away.

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

To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

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 practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

To extract by means of distillation.

To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

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

An advantageous purchase;

To withdraw oneself; to retire.

A stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

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

Take without the owner's consent;

To perform the process of abstraction.

Move stealthily;

To create abstractions.

Steal a base

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

To go stealthily or furtively;

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;