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• The painting is abstract, but the colors are suggestive of fruit or the Mediterranean.From the entry suggestive
• The paper's abstract looked promising but accessing the fulltext would have cost me $60 so I didn't end up reading it.From the entry fulltext
• As if to keep our rather abstract conversation properly grounded in earthy realities, a couple of Ayrshires wandered past us and left behind some cowpies for our consideration.From the entry Ayrshire
• The dialectics of absolute and relative, concrete and abstract, subject and object, and theory and practice is focused on some of the most important questions in philosophy.From the entry dialectics
• The definition of algebraic structure establishes a framework through which to compare otherwise very different abstract objects, and to study similarities and patterns made apparent by the definition.From the entry algebraic structure
• The First Class compartments featured full-width mirrors, pleated curtains, folding tables, abstract murals, and teak veneering.2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46. From the entry veneering
• She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar. From the entry rep
• Scala 2 supported existential types, a way of abstracting over types.2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 16, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN. From the entry existential type
• In other words, the Modern Synthesis simply abstracts away from the role of phenotypic variation.2020, Martin Hähnel, editor, Aristotelian Naturalism: A Research Companion, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 336. From the entry modern synthesis
• They think holistically, in black and white, and physically, treating abstract networks as concrete stuff.2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin…. From the entry by nature
• "When we say 'scholastic,' we mean something that is very abstract, not concrete, not empirical."2014 April 7, James Wood, quoting Gianna Pomata, “Sergei Dovlatov and the Hearsay of Memory”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé…. From the entry concrete
• It is a form of minimalism, like the minimalism of an abstract artist.2013, Claudis Weyser, The Diary of an Aphorisiac. From the entry insultant
• There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation.2013, Silke Panse, “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films”…. From the entry skyness
• Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.2012 July 23, Helen Sword, “Zombie Nouns”, in NY Times. From the entry nominalization
• Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity.2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities. From the entry trans-identified male
• Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract.2009 March 25, Dwight Garner, “Dispatches From the Streets: The Grim Particulars of Homelessness”, in New York Times. From the entry yackety
• Abstract: I introduce and argue for the importance of a cognitive state that I call alief.2008, TS Gendler, “Alief in action (and reaction)”, in Mind & Language. From the entry alief
• With the rebus principle, sound could be made visible in a systematic way, and abstract concepts symbolized.2008, Amy Bryzgel, New Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1987–1999. From the entry rebus principle
• “Vessels are so over” is the apparent subtext of this potpourri of the figurative, abstract and installational.2007 September 7, Roberta Smith, “It’s Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect?”, in New York Times. From the entry installational
• The luminaries of the ‘first sophistic’—Philostratus cites Gorgias, Critias, and others—treated, we are told, abstract philosophical themes.2005, Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry sophistic
• SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis. From the entry lex
• So it starts with the sensical, and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract.2004, John C. Welchman, quoting Mike Kelley, “Introduction”, in Mike Kelley, edited by John C. Welchman, Minor Histories: Statements…. From the entry sensical
• The amero notes and coins will have in common abstract designs on one side.2003, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Dollarization: lessons from Europe and the Americas. From the entry amero
• The meaning of forms tends to shift from more concrete to more abstract in grammaticalization.2003, Karen Emmorey, Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages, Psychology Press, →ISBN. From the entry desemanticization
• The closer it comes to becoming concrete the more abstract it seems.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry concrete
• This call is operative not merely on the level of abstract theory.1988 April 2, Phillip Brian Harper, “Lesbians and gay men of color, speak out!”, in Gay Community News, page 9. From the entry operative
• In Old Church Slavonic, adjectives formed from mass nouns and abstract nouns belong here (Tolstoj 72-3).1982, László Dezső, Typological Studies in Old Serbo-Croatian Syntax. From the entry Old Serbo-Croatian
• A complex arrangement of blackwork stitches used to create an abstract design for a wallhanging or picture.1976, Pam Dawson, The Complete book of Knitting, Crochet, & Embroidery, page 372. From the entry wallhanging
• Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities.1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry schizoid
• Compelled to flee to South America, he became a noted crusader for the abstract principle of liberty.1945, Jay Monaghan, Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry red shirt
• On the other hand, abstract categories are less truly existent than certain other objects.1932, Paul Faulkner Tjensvold, God Known by Intuition, A.B. University of California, page 88. From the entry hyperexistent
• Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning. From the entry hollo

Meaning of abstract

1. noun An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
2. noun Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
3. noun Concentrated essence of a product.

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How do you use abstract in a sentence?

Abstract is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.”

What is a short sentence with abstract?

“He abstracted out the square root function.”

What does abstract mean?

Abstract means an abridgement or summary of a longer publication.