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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121. Ethics in the abstract judges action by its conformity with the moral law; political ethics judges action by its political consequences.
122. Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
123. Another kind of stress is of a more abstract nature.
124. Only under verbal contingencies can property of an object without responding to the object in any other way is called abstract.
125. Abstract expressionism is commonly identified as the pinnacle of modernism.
126. I don't think if you just consider products or a market in the abstract that you can be ahead of your time.
127. This chapter will analyse the abstract nature of the search space drawing on relevant aspects of state-space search theory.
128. She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists.
129. And this museum, previously named the Museum of Non-Objective Art, was championing abstract art as early as the 1930s.
130. It's an abstract design that's supposed to represent freedom and strength.
131. The morphologists' interpretation of evolution invoked adaptation only in the most abstract way.
132. If this is not done then the method is in danger of becoming too abstract and distant.
133. To the victims, the abstract Leftism of some of the Bolsheviks seemed in practice much the same as colonial domination.
134. We encounter Judd before the rest of the minimalists and Clyfford Still after his fellow abstract expressionists.
135. You have already been allowed to enter an abstract model of Pool.
136. And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature.
137. The boys outpaced the girls in mechanical, verbal, and abstract reasoning, space relations, and numerical ability.
138. All that is a bit abstract but it can be earthed by an example.
139. Across its upper half, two lines Of human figures snake toward an abstract river.
140. The human touch, the intuition and a more abstract conception of reality were now considered fundamental to art.
141. Abstract searching and updating of the data bases are done centrally and then disseminated to the centers.
142. For that reason, abstract art has been anxious to distance itself from decoration.
143. Nature is the setting but abstract nature; feeling, not representation.
144. One reason for this may have lain in the unwillingness of biologists to accept the highly abstract nature of his theory.
145. How do these rather abstract dimensions and headings work out in concrete terms?
146. In the abstract, democracy is wonderful, but a true democracy may not be possible.
147. In the abstract we used only the numbers from the last six weeks of each treatment period to avoid a changeover effect.
148. Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots.
149. This is why the letter detectors are referred to as abstract: they do not provide information about specific visual form.
150. The issue of compatibility is difficult to abstract from real-life situations.
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