Definitions for abstracts

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abstracts ab·stract

Spelling: [adjective ab-strakt, ab-strakt; noun

IPA: /adjective æbˈstrækt, ˈæb strækt; noun ˈæb strækt; verb æbˈstrækt for 10–13, ˈæb strækt for 14/

Abstracts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in abstracts (aabcrsstt).

Definitions for abstracts

noun

1. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
2. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
3. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
4. an abstract work of art.

Idioms

1. abstract away from, to omit from consideration.
2. in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory:

adjective

1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances:
2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
3. theoretical; not applied or practical:
4. difficult to understand; abstruse:
5. Fine Arts. of or relating to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another. (often initial capital letter) pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw or take away; remove.
2. to divert or draw away the attention of.
3. to steal.
4. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances:
5. to make an abstract of; summarize.

Origin of abstracts

1400-50; late Middle English: withdrawn from worldly interests Latin abstractus drawn off (past participle of abstrahere). See abs-, tract

Examples for abstracts

Put thus broadly and abstractly, the answer must be negative.

Meditation, abstractly considered, is neither a virtue nor a vice.

What do you think it is, abstractly, that makes this period so absorbing?

Its because you are thinking of her abstractly; remembering only how she has hurt you.

Our hero did not believe in brandy, abstractly or concretely.

The study of rent puts this abstractly, but in a clear light.

We must distinguish between the abstractly typical and the universal.

abstractly it is no more important than the other odd thousand we work with.

"abstractly, I of course agree with you," he said haltingly.

abstractly, it is said that virtue is its own reward—and it is.