abstract

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/    /ˈæbˌstɹækt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
    — An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.
  2. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
    — Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
  3. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.; Concentrated essence of a product.
  4. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.; A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
  5. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
    — Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.
  6. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
  7. An abstract work of art.
  8. A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
动词 v.
  1. To separate; to disengage. transitive
    — He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
  2. To separate; to disengage.; To remove; to take away; withdraw. transitive
    — The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.
  3. To separate; to disengage.; To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. euphemistic,transitive
    — Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
  4. To separate; to disengage.; To extract by means of distillation. obsolete,transitive
    — Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
  5. To separate; to disengage.; To draw off (interest or attention). transitive
    — The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
  6. To separate; to disengage.; To withdraw oneself; to retire. figuratively,intransitive,literally,reflexive,transitive
  7. To separate; to disengage.; To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality. transitive
    — To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter.
  8. To separate; to disengage.; To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.; 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. transitive
  9. To separate; to disengage.; To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.; To perform the process of abstraction. intransitive,rare,transitive
    — I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
  10. To separate; to disengage.; To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.; To create abstractions. intransitive,transitive
  11. To separate; to disengage.; To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.; To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out". intransitive,transitive
    — He abstracted out the square root function.
  12. To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Derived; extracted. obsolete
  2. Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. archaic
    — The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
  3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
    — Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
  4. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.; Insufficiently factual.
  5. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.; Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
    — During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
  6. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.; As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
  7. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
    — The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
  8. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
    — A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing...
  9. Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
    — A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing.[…]A practice, however, 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.
  10. Absent-minded. archaic
    — Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw, abstract, as in a trance
  11. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.; Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century. capitalized,often
    — But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction.
  12. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.; Absolute.
  13. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.; Lacking a story.
  14. Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
词源 2
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
词源 3
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
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