abstract

Denizione di  abstract - dizionario di inglese del sito grammaticainglese.org - definizione traduzione e spiegazione grammaticale


Definizione monolingua abstract



abstract


Verb

abstract (third-person singular simple present abstracts, present participle abstracting, simple past and past participle abstracted)


  1. (transitive) To separate; to remove; to take away.
    • Walter Scott - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
  2. (transitive) To withdraw.
  3. (transitive) (euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
    • W. Black - Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
  4. (transitive) (art) To create artistic abstractions of.
  5. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
  6. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.
  7. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
    He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
    • William Blackwood, Blackwoods Magazine - The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
  8. (transitive) (obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
  9. (intransitive) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
  10. (intransitive) (rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
    • George Berkeley - I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
  11. (intransitive) (computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with ""out"".
    He abstracted out the square root function.
Noun

abstract (plural abstracts)


  1. An abridgement or summary.
    • Isaac Watts — An abstract of every treatise he had read.
  2. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.
    • Ford — Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
  3. An abstraction; an abstract term.
  4. (art) An abstract work of art.
  5. That which is abstract.
    • John Stuart Mill — The concretes ""father"" and ""son"" have, or might have, the abstracts ""paternity"" and ""filiety"".
  6. (medicine) 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.
Adjective

abstract (comparative more abstract, superlative most abstract)


  1. (obsolete) Extracted.
  2. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.
    • 17th century: Noris, The Oxford Dictionary - The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
  3. Absent in mind.
  4. Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.
  5. Difficult to understand; abstruse.
  6. (art) Free from representational qualities.
  7. (logic) General (as opposed to particular).
    • John Stuart Mill - 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.
  8. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.


Definizione italiano>inglese abstract


astratto
  that which is abstract
  apart from practice or reality; not concrete
  Art that looks as if it contains little or no recognizable or realistic forms from the physical world.
  Regarding abstractions, namely, concepts, ideas, thoughts etc.(Adj.; Re. Philosophy; Source: IPDF)
  Difficult to understand.
  Not applied, not practical (Adj.; Re. Philosophy; Source: IPDF).
  A short summary of the contents of a document that gives the reader a quick overview of its topic and purpose.
sottrarre
  to separate; to remove; to take away
  to steal
astrarre
  to perform the process of abstraction
compendio
  an abrigement or summary
  A condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
estratto
  an abrigement or summary
  A condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
sunto
  an abrigement or summary
  A condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
teorico
  separate
  apart from practice or reality; not concrete
sommario
astruso
  difficult to understand
estrarre
  to separate; to remove; to take away
riassumere
  to abridge, epitomize, or summarize
riassunto
  an abrigement or summary
rimuovere
  to separate; to remove; to take away
concludere
dedurre
ritirare
astrazione
  an abstraction
abolire
abstract
compendiare
epitomare
ricavare
rubare
scoprire
separare
sintesi

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