Abstract meaning : An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form. An abstract work of art. A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title. To separate; to disengage. To remove; to take away; withdraw. To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize. 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. To extract by means of distillation. To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality. To withdraw oneself; to retire. To draw off (interest or attention). To perform the process of abstraction. To create abstractions. To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out". Derived; extracted. Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive. 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. Absent-minded. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. Insufficiently factual. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person. Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.