Crossword-Solution: ABSTRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abstract | a. | Withdraw; separate. |
| Abstract | a. | Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. |
| Abstract | a. | Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. |
| Abstract | a. | Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. |
| Abstract | a. | Abstracted; absent in mind. |
| Abstract | a. | To withdraw; to separate; to take away. |
| Abstract | a. | To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. |
| Abstract | a. | To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. |
| Abstract | a. | To epitomize; to abridge. |
| Abstract | a. | To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. |
| Abstract | a. | To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used. |
| Abstract | v. t. | To perform the process of abstraction. |
| Abstract | a. | That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. |
| Abstract | a. | A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. |
| Abstract | a. | An abstract term. |
| Abstract | a. | A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ORANCE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ABSTRACT (5)
Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him as a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.
Common interjections are "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that `moby loss' is OK even though *`moby loser' is not used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has positive connotations.
Abstract objects cannot be placed inside physical devices; with computers one can only represent text and act upon those representations.
But my present business with him was of a different nature than that which requires any considerable abstract reasoning; it was to get my sword between his ribs, and this I succeeded in doing within the next few seconds, nor was I an instant too soon.
Instead of springing from a belief in abstract human rights, they were an accumulation of concrete legal and political privileges which had developed since Magna Charta.
Quotes with ABSTRACT (3)
The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
In most cases, people argue over the term God, without having the perception of another person’s own idea of the word. Hence, often people with an atheistic perspective of the world attribute the God of many religious individuals to be an angry, authoritarian and vengeful God who acts like a human being and lives in the clouds or in heaven. But the irony is, most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychologi…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).