Synonym: difficult, remove, take away. Similar words: distract, attract, contract, contractor, attraction, attractive, abstinence, obstreperous. Meaning: ['æbstrækt] 
n. 1. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance 2. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory. v. 1. consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically 2. make off with belongings of others 3. consider apart from a particular case or instance 4. give an abstract (of). adj. 1. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment 2. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature 3. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention.
n. 1. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance 2. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory. v. 1. consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically 2. make off with belongings of others 3. consider apart from a particular case or instance 4. give an abstract (of). adj. 1. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment 2. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature 3. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention. 
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91. Where he is abstract and geometric, she is figurative and expressionist.
92. Are they planned in terms of transforming abstract ideas or theories into useful learning experiences?
93. Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there.
94. Note the lack of direct empirical support and the abstract character of the argument.
95. The type description considers language as abstract knowledge, the token description as actual behaviour.
96. His hatred of abstract painting - even of people like Jackson Pollock and Nicholson.
97. But these themes are always interspersed with more fanciful ones: grimacing masks, weird animals, exuberant abstract patterns.
98. It follows that narrative poetics is in fact a form of historiography, a highly abstract story of stories.
99. In this book, therefore, attention is concentrated on relations of the more abstract sort.
100. They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form.
101. In the Introduction to the Principles, Berkeley spends a considerable time arguing against the doctrine of abstract ideas.
102. They begin by challenging the current opinion that all peoples share basic functions of the mind such as logical and abstract abilities.
103. It is perhaps not surprising that choreographers use the classical style fur most abstract ballets.
104. This is fairly obvious with a relatively abstract form such as a moral code.
105. These young people were not benefiting from traditional lectures and abstract materials, he argued.
106. The range cleverly combines a diversity of abstract design styles from classical to modern in a well balanced selection.
107. Our point here is that at an abstract level, every organization values pretty much the same things.
108. My next and last example draws on our most abstract and widely shared convictions about political justice and fairness.
109. They do not consist of an abstract duty to maximise profits or otherwise to act in the interests of society.
110. It has art's power to translate, to abstract from the circumstances in which it originates.
111. Such thoughts were not purely abstract, but directed towards Eliot's own values and to London.
112. In structuralism, these formal properties are taken at a relatively abstract level.
113. Indeed, although regulatory offences in the abstract may be regarded as of minor consequence they may in certain cases have drastic results.
114. But even the most abstract thinker does not wholly escape the need to impregnate thought with joy.
115. But subjects that are more abstract, such as scientific concepts or math, may cause them difficulties.
116. Pieces of abstract art do not suddenly change colour because we have moved them from artificial light to daylight.
117. The pace and enthusiasm flagged considerably when attention had to switch from abstract or grand designs to the nitty-gritty of practical details.
118. What he can do, however,(http://sentencedict.com) is render remarkable mixed-media abstract works that revel in the auras of his subjects.
119. But vibrant is such an abstract term that it can not be used to describe what to look for in a dough.
120. Is it endowed with some kind of abstract, almost Platonic existence, or is it seen in terms of its social context?
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