英语词汇“abstract”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

abstract

adjective /ˈabstrakt

1Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence: abstract concepts such as love or beauty...

Poetry allows us to examine science in a way that purely scientific discourse cannot by analogizing abstract concepts into concrete forms.
Making haiku is a most effective way of exploring ways of expressing abstract concepts in concrete language, of pulling out the essence of a feeling and making it into something unique.
In that profession you start with a blank sheet of paper and a concept or abstract idea.

Synonyms

theoretical, conceptual, notional, intellectual, metaphysical, philosophical, academic;

hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative

rare suppositious, suppositive, ideational

1.1Dealing with ideas rather than events: the novel was too abstract and esoteric to sustain much attention...

Potokar's poetry seems rather abstract, at times cryptic, but at the same time palpable and relentless in its attempt to fight despair and solitude.
The pace is languid and events too abstract to be a children's movie, yet corny stunts alienate mature viewers.
Some people feel modern dance is difficult to follow, somewhat abstract or esoteric.

1.2Not based on a particular instance; theoretical: we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner...

Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical.
So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change.
Not some theoretical, abstract cost, but a real cost.

1.3(Of a noun) denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.Many abstract nouns are uncountable, but not all uncountable nouns are abstract....

And although ubuntu can be grammatically classified as an abstract noun, it is often employed in relational contexts.
This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine.

2Relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures: abstract pictures...

Both legs and abstract shapes contribute to an almost painterly overall compositional effect.
It's a beautiful work of abstract colour and texture, of contrasting dark and light.
Rothko stresses that the contrast between abstract and representational painting is overdrawn, that all art has subject matter.

Synonyms

non-representational, non-realistic, non-pictorial, symbolic, impressionistic

verb /əbˈstrakt

/ [with object]

1 (abstract something from) Consider something theoretically or separately from (something else): to abstract science and religion from their historical context can lead to anachronism...

But, while Elkins writes good staccato dialogue, he abstracts his characters from society.
These are two senses in which mathematics is an abstract subject: it abstracts the important features from a problem and it deals with objects that are not concrete and tangible.
The flaw in that approach, in our submission, is that it tends to dismember the definition of ‘refugee’ in Article 1A and then abstracts a particular element from its context and seeks to say that the Tribunal must deal with that element.

2 (usually abstract something from) Extract or remove (something): applications to abstract more water from streams...

What makes the humanities (separate from the arts) important is that they take the areas where we have insufficient data and try to abstract useful principles from it.
And, even though Patrick Mason's production is presented by Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Company, I question his decision to abstract the play from its Irish setting with its echoes of the Ulysses Night-town sequence.
The most egregious of these is the tendency, exemplified by Norm and Omar, to abstract a situation from the mesh of geopolitical considerations in which it is embedded and reduce it to a stark moral question.

Synonyms

extract, pump, draw (off), tap, suck, withdraw, remove, take out/away;

separate, detach, isolate, dissociate

2.1Used euphemistically to indicate that someone has stolen something: his pockets contained all he had been able to abstract from the flat...

He was sentenced to six years for the production of cannabis and four years for abstracting electricity.

2.2 (abstract oneself) Withdraw: as our relationship deepened you seemed to abstract yourself...

So it's always the moment when I'm stuck in reality - I have to abstract myself from it.
One thing suggested here is that only when you are able to abstract yourself, to look at yourself as if at a distance, as if you were mourning yourself, can you recognize yourself in a way that allows you to remember that you are alive at all.
It assumes humans can abstract themselves from reality and go romping through history looking for the all-powerful distant cause that will explain each and every aspect of our current situation.

3Make a written summary of (an article or book): staff who abstract material for an online database...

Conversely, the same volunteer scholar (noted by his initials at the end of the record) abstracted another article more thoroughly.
Final data were abstracted directly from published articles or estimated from descriptive statistics presented in the articles.
We thank Michelle Grondin for her help in retrieving articles and abstracting data and Nancy Cleary for her administrative assistance.

Synonyms

summarize, write a summary of, precis, abridge, condense, compress, shorten, cut down, abbreviate, synopsize

rare epitomize

noun /ˈabstrakt

1A summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech: an abstract of her speech...

Dr. De Luca has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, over 200 abstracts, a book, and holds 12 patents.
In the meantime, many journals provide at their Web sites at least a limited listing of tables of contents of their most recent issues, sometimes with abstracts and occasional articles.
Content that we intend keeping free throughout this period includes abstracts of articles, rapid responses, and the Editor's Choice column.

Synonyms

summary, synopsis, precis, résumé, outline, recapitulation, abridgement, condensation, digest, summation;

French aperçu;

North American wrap-up

archaic argument

rare epitome, conspectus

2An abstract work of art: a big unframed abstract...

Paint-Or-Die manages to represent a wide gamut of modern painting styles: colour-field painting, abstracts, figurative and representational styles are all here.
Working in acrylics, inks, and soft pastels her paintings range from tender abstracts depicting human emotions to more powerful and emotive images full of eastern promise and the mystical unknown.
He is now experimenting with big abstracts in oils.

Phrases

in the abstract

Derivatives

abstractly

/ˈabstraktli

/ adverb ...

Many law students tend to phrase things too abstractly; this exercise aims to help them make their writing more concrete and therefore clearer and more effective.
If they do, your children will have far more chance of learning to think abstractly by the end of their GCSEs, and some of them might end up at university studying science or possibly even become scientists.
Somehow hearing abstractly about 6 million killed just does not make the same emotional connection as reading the full story of one little girl and her family.

abstractor

/abˈstraktə

/ noun ...

He said: ‘We will be consulting fully with angling clubs, water abstractors and other waterway users.’
Even when they are, researchers must try to control for variations in quality; author-supplied abstracts, for example, are frequently less systematic or structured than those written by professional abstractors.
There are abstractors, including Meridian Energy, that would divert water to another catchment or into storage, and there are those who value the water in-stream.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally 'drawn away', past participle of abstrahere, from ab- 'from' + trahere 'draw off'.

The Latin source of abstract, meant literally ‘drawn away’ and is from abstrahere, from the elements ab- ‘from’ and trahere ‘draw off’. The use in art dates from the mid 19th century. Trahere is found in many English words including: attract (Late Middle English) with ad ‘to’; portrait (mid 16th century), something drawn; protract (mid 16th century) with pro ‘out’; retract (Late Middle English) and retreat (Late Middle English) both drawing back; and words listed at train.

单词	abstract
释义	abstract adjective /ˈabstrakt / 1Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence: abstract concepts such as love or beauty... Poetry allows us to examine science in a way that purely scientific discourse cannot by analogizing abstract concepts into concrete forms. Making haiku is a most effective way of exploring ways of expressing abstract concepts in concrete language, of pulling out the essence of a feeling and making it into something unique. In that profession you start with a blank sheet of paper and a concept or abstract idea. Synonyms theoretical, conceptual, notional, intellectual, metaphysical, philosophical, academic; hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative rare suppositious, suppositive, ideational 1.1Dealing with ideas rather than events: the novel was too abstract and esoteric to sustain much attention... Potokar's poetry seems rather abstract, at times cryptic, but at the same time palpable and relentless in its attempt to fight despair and solitude. The pace is languid and events too abstract to be a children's movie, yet corny stunts alienate mature viewers. Some people feel modern dance is difficult to follow, somewhat abstract or esoteric. 1.2Not based on a particular instance; theoretical: we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner... Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical. So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change. Not some theoretical, abstract cost, but a real cost. 1.3(Of a noun) denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.Many abstract nouns are uncountable, but not all uncountable nouns are abstract.... And although ubuntu can be grammatically classified as an abstract noun, it is often employed in relational contexts. This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine. 2Relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures: abstract pictures... Both legs and abstract shapes contribute to an almost painterly overall compositional effect. It's a beautiful work of abstract colour and texture, of contrasting dark and light. Rothko stresses that the contrast between abstract and representational painting is overdrawn, that all art has subject matter. Synonyms non-representational, non-realistic, non-pictorial, symbolic, impressionistic verb /əbˈstrakt / [with object] 1 (abstract something from) Consider something theoretically or separately from (something else): to abstract science and religion from their historical context can lead to anachronism... But, while Elkins writes good staccato dialogue, he abstracts his characters from society. These are two senses in which mathematics is an abstract subject: it abstracts the important features from a problem and it deals with objects that are not concrete and tangible. The flaw in that approach, in our submission, is that it tends to dismember the definition of ‘refugee’ in Article 1A and then abstracts a particular element from its context and seeks to say that the Tribunal must deal with that element. 2 (usually abstract something from) Extract or remove (something): applications to abstract more water from streams... What makes the humanities (separate from the arts) important is that they take the areas where we have insufficient data and try to abstract useful principles from it. And, even though Patrick Mason's production is presented by Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Company, I question his decision to abstract the play from its Irish setting with its echoes of the Ulysses Night-town sequence. The most egregious of these is the tendency, exemplified by Norm and Omar, to abstract a situation from the mesh of geopolitical considerations in which it is embedded and reduce it to a stark moral question. Synonyms extract, pump, draw (off), tap, suck, withdraw, remove, take out/away; separate, detach, isolate, dissociate 2.1Used euphemistically to indicate that someone has stolen something: his pockets contained all he had been able to abstract from* the flat... He was sentenced to six years for the production of cannabis and four years for abstracting electricity. 2.2 (abstract oneself) Withdraw: as our relationship deepened you seemed to abstract yourself... So it's always the moment when I'm stuck in reality - I have to abstract myself from it. One thing suggested here is that only when you are able to abstract yourself, to look at yourself as if at a distance, as if you were mourning yourself, can you recognize yourself in a way that allows you to remember that you are alive at all. It assumes humans can abstract themselves from reality and go romping through history looking for the all-powerful distant cause that will explain each and every aspect of our current situation. 3Make a written summary of (an article or book): staff who abstract material for an online database... Conversely, the same volunteer scholar (noted by his initials at the end of the record) abstracted another article more thoroughly. Final data were abstracted directly from published articles or estimated from descriptive statistics presented in the articles. We thank Michelle Grondin for her help in retrieving articles and abstracting data and Nancy Cleary for her administrative assistance. Synonyms summarize, write a summary of, precis, abridge, condense, compress, shorten, cut down, abbreviate, synopsize rare* epitomize noun /ˈabstrakt / 1A summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech: an abstract of her speech... Dr. De Luca has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, over 200 abstracts, a book, and holds 12 patents. In the meantime, many journals provide at their Web sites at least a limited listing of tables of contents of their most recent issues, sometimes with abstracts and occasional articles. Content that we intend keeping free throughout this period includes abstracts of articles, rapid responses, and the Editor's Choice column. Synonyms summary, synopsis, precis, résumé, outline, recapitulation, abridgement, condensation, digest, summation; French aperçu; North American wrap-up archaic argument rare epitome, conspectus 2An abstract work of art: a big unframed abstract... Paint-Or-Die manages to represent a wide gamut of modern painting styles: colour-field painting, abstracts, figurative and representational styles are all here. Working in acrylics, inks, and soft pastels her paintings range from tender abstracts depicting human emotions to more powerful and emotive images full of eastern promise and the mystical unknown. He is now experimenting with big abstracts in oils. Phrases in the abstract Derivatives abstractly /ˈabstraktli / adverb ... Many law students tend to phrase things too abstractly; this exercise aims to help them make their writing more concrete and therefore clearer and more effective. If they do, your children will have far more chance of learning to think abstractly by the end of their GCSEs, and some of them might end up at university studying science or possibly even become scientists. Somehow hearing abstractly about 6 million killed just does not make the same emotional connection as reading the full story of one little girl and her family. abstractor /abˈstraktə / noun ... He said: ‘We will be consulting fully with angling clubs, water abstractors and other waterway users.’ Even when they are, researchers must try to control for variations in quality; author-supplied abstracts, for example, are frequently less systematic or structured than those written by professional abstractors. There are abstractors, including Meridian Energy, that would divert water to another catchment or into storage, and there are those who value the water in-stream. Origin Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally 'drawn away', past participle of abstrahere, from ab- 'from' + trahere 'draw off'. The Latin source of abstract, meant literally ‘drawn away’ and is from abstrahere, from the elements ab- ‘from’ and trahere ‘draw off’. The use in art dates from the mid 19th century. Trahere is found in many English words including: attract (Late Middle English) with ad ‘to’; portrait (mid 16th century), something drawn; protract (mid 16th century) with pro ‘out’; retract (Late Middle English) and retreat (Late Middle English) both drawing back; and words listed at train. Rhymes abreact, act, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, enact, exact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked
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