abstract

Definizione monolingua

abstract

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.

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.

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 dizionario 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

Altri significati:

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

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

free from representational qualities

(intransitive) To withdraw oneself; to retire.

An abridgement or summary.

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

That which is abstract.

an extract of a vegetable substance

extracted

an abstract work of art

(obsolete) Extracted.

(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.

(art) An abstract work of art.

Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.

(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.

Absent in mind.

selection (from a group)

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

absent in mind

to withdraw oneself

to consider abstractly

(logic) General (as opposed to particular).

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.

to extract by means of distillation

something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else

(intransitive) (rare) To perform the process of abstraction.

abstract (of a paper)

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

general as opposed to particular

Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.

(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

to withdraw

to draw off

(transitive) To withdraw.

(art) Free from representational qualities.

An abstraction; an abstract term.

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

(transitive) (art) To create artistic abstractions of.

to create an artistic abstraction of

Difficult to understand; abstruse.