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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151. Words are only essential to put across more abstract concepts and intellectual ideas.
152. This is not some abstract discussion between lobbyists with their checkbooks out and members of Congress.
153. For example, cubism is very little like its object, and abstract art, not at all.
154. All abstract, intellectual concepts that children will master at later ages are based on concepts they learn in their early relationships.
155. It is in the nature of the law, however, to be couched in abstract terms.
156. But it was never expected that voters would forsake their loyalties in large numbers for an abstract principle.
157. But the abstract painters don't want to produce decoration, they want to produce High Art.
158. These figures have an abstract quality, and may not seem to mean much.
159. Similar remarks could be made about the abstract ballets by Balanchine, MacMillan and others.
160. It is, however, especially difficult in the history of modernism to reconnect abstract artists with nature.
161. In 1937 the historian Meyer Schapiro, writing first in Marxist Quarterly, analysed the opposition of realist and abstract art.
162. The museum directors and critics did not name any abstract expressionist, let alone Pollock.
163. One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.
164. The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach.
165. If Joan was an abstract purist, other young artists were turning toward Bad Painting and cartoon art.
166. Have you used words that are too familiar, worn-out similes, too many abstract nouns?
167. Water waves are of course different in character from their more abstract mathematical cousins, yet there are striking parallels.
168. In these circumstances such corporate wealth begins to take on an almost abstract quality.
169. There is a somewhat abstract quality about this body which currently operates out of solicitors' premises somewhere in Berkshire.
170. Law mirrors the abstract individuality and formal equality of contracting parties in the capitalist market.
171. Gorbachev took the abstract idea of reform and made it a reality.
172. Genette's relational strategy leads him to construct purely abstract combinations without any real existence in literature.
173. The first level was of abstract theory and method; the second was centred upon current policy questions.
174. These experiments provide strong evidence for the existence of a system of abstract letter detectors.
175. However, Rauschenberg's act is important in establishing the necessity of acknowledging the importance of usurping the claims of abstract expressionism.
176. Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
177. Where there is no love to start with,(sentencedict.com/abstract.html) there is nothing of an abstract nature to withhold.
178. People understand - on an abstract level - that education and training are important.
179. Abstract guides to recent developments in specific fields are also published in each issue.
180. But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.
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