English Dictionary

abstract

/ˈæbˌstɹækt/

verb

(transitive) To separate; to disengage. / (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw. / (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

She abstracted the key from the pile of papers.

意味（1）

(transitive) To separate; to disengage.

He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.

意味（2）

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

The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.

意味（3）

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

Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

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

Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?

意味（7）

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

To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter.

意味（8）

(intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.

意味（9）

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

The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.

意味（10）

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

I own myself able to abstract in one sense.

意味（11）

(intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.

意味（12）

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

He abstracted out the square root function.