Abstract

['æbstrækt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.

(verb.) consider apart from a particular case or instance; 'Let's abstract away from this particular example'.

(verb.) give an abstract (of).

(adj.) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; 'abstract words like `truth' and `justice'' .

(adj.) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; 'abstract reasoning'; 'abstract science' .

(adj.) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; 'a large abstract painting' .

乔茜錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Withdraw; separate.

(a.) 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.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.

(a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.

(a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

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

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

(a.) To epitomize; to abridge.

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

(a.) 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.

(v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

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

(a.) An abstract term.

(a.) 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.

达伦編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Separate, disunite, disjoin, dissociate, isolate, detach, disengage.[2]. Take, seize, appropriate, steal, purloin.[3]. Abridge, abbreviate, epitomize, make an abstract of.

a. [1]. Separate, isolated, not concrete.[2]. Occult, recondite, subtile, refined, abstracted, ABSTRUSE.

n. Abridgment, epitome, summary, conspectus, compend, compendium, synopsis, syllabus, outline, digest, brief, breviary, sum and substance, concise statement.

迪莉娅編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Separate, detach, part, eliminate, draw_away, remove, take_away, appropriate,purloin, steal, thieve, draw_from

ANT:Add, unite, conjoin, adduce, impose, restore, surrender, return, Abstract \n.\,[See ABRIDGMENT]

手打:谢莉

解釋/意思:

adj. general as opposed to particular or individual (the opposite of abstract is concrete—a red colour is an abstract notion a red rose is a concrete notion; an abstract noun is the name of a quality apart from the thing as redness).—n. summary: abridgment: essence.

v.t. to draw away: to separate: to purloin.—adj. Abstract′ed drawn off (with from): removed: absent in mind.—adv. Abstract′edly.—ns. Abstract′edness; Abstrac′tion act of abstracting: state of being abstracted: absence of mind: the operation of the mind by which certain qualities or attributes of an object are considered apart from the rest: a purloining.—adj. Abstract′ive having the power of abstracting.—n. anything abstractive: an abstract.—adv. Abs′tractly.—n. Abs′tractness.

編輯:沃尔夫冈