How to pronounce “abstract”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
• An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
• The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
• (art) An abstract work of art. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
• (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
• [Adjective]
• (obsolete) Derived; extracted. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 15th century.][1]
• (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• Not concrete: conceptual, ideal. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• 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. [First attested by Locke in 1689.]
• (archaic) Absent-minded. [First attested in the early 16th century.][1]
• (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
• (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To separate; to disengage. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]

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