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    1. 'Aluminum' was an abstract concept for me until now


    2. Problems with Abstract Thinking


    3. ‘John’ is a man, and ‘happiness’ is an abstract noun


    4. close your eyes, abstract yourself for a moment from all the problems and


    5. You think it's abstract because of what it actually is, but it actually is that


    6. God is not identified as any abstract being


    7. He finally found it and couldn’t figure out what it was doing because most of it was abstract mathematical operations with no documentation


    8. The inversion of control (IoC) pattern is abstract; it says that one should move dependency creation out


    9. Once you have me encapsulated, anyone who can work a scene builder can render an environment that I can’t penetrate, even more abstract than what was presented to me


    10. That evening she tried to ask if sex was part of the ceremony, but in spite of their desire to help her and to understand, it was still too abstract a concept to get across

    11. The Abstract Realization of the Worldly


    12. The Worldly Oppositional Church is an abstract premise and is created


    13. through the abstract rather than through logic and calculation


    14. She almost finished this one, some of these earlier ones like this abstract and the boats she barely got started


    15. The only thing that graced our halls was abstract


    16. He was at last feeling as though they were really making some actual sense of those fundamental, and for him, somewhat abstract Law of Three and Law of Octaves


    17. "It looks like that only its style is a bit more abstract


    18. They entered the Drop a third of the way down where the vine was still plentiful enough to put an abstract veneer on their view of the world


    19. She tried to explain more about the ghosts and mortals of YingolNeerie, but it was just too abstract for Klowa to really get a good grasp of it


    20. If she thought he might actually understand any of it, she would have been nervous with him so close, but since the screens were totally abstract in his mind, she went on with her work without really thinking of him

    21. What were the locals to Marsha? Just an abstract concept probably


    22. abstract sciences, but the rather small number of


    23. profound or abstract, the more the clarity of exposition


    24. The abstract genesis of time:


    25. The abstract word of time or


    26. Although he was a thief, Brynjolf had always had a very particular reaction to the idea of family, whether it be in the abstract or in the corporeal and immediate sense


    27. Danny had presented the noble causes in abstract terms, and Frank, with no outside help, had turned them into specifics


    28. abstract corn, shall be instantly, in a twinkling and a trice, turned


    29. doctrines by advancing plausible interpretations contrary to biblical teachings and superseding them with spiritually abstract new-age assumptions bordering on Pantheism


    30. The unsettling (perception) of being beholden to other people oftentimes engenders troubling notions of an individual‘s private failings that seeks its own outlet by projecting that individual‘s sense of frustration (and shame) on his or her ―benefactor‖ whether it be a family member, a close friend or someone more abstract like (the) taxpayer

    31. Our society has been conditioned to trivialize the ―root causes‖ of violent crimes committed by one race (Black) against another (White) by advancing abstract arguments centering on ―institutionalized racism,‖


    32. Some people take pride in ―slumming‖; especially the well to do affected by an abstract need to ―connect‖ with the ―people‖ (―Hey, I‘m just a regular guy like anybody else‖) while others, on the other hand, enjoy flaunting conventions for their own sake whereas others (may) feel that ―proper‖ attire is no longer relevant and then there are those who have simply developed lazy habits


    33. Abstract Art conveys neither Reality nor Truth


    34. Reason allows an individual to consider things rationally and to draw abstract conclusions about ―things


    35. After all, what did Christ and his Apostles really look like? Has anyone ever encountered an Angel? Such (abstract) personifications remain open to interpretation; a (worldly) convenience to meet its own special requirements rather than an unqualified expression grounded on historical accuracy


    36. One does not properly refer to the Dignity of the Masses, other than in some abstract sense, because collective designs are unable to achieve loftier goals that are uniquely individualistic


    37. This may prove a difficult undertaking, however, for a society that has seemingly lost its moral bearing! In the final analysis, it is people and not (abstract) societies that evolve


    38. Tiny rows of even, serried waves made abstract and ever-changing patterns


    39. From early childhood he recognizes his image as a representation of himself…Awareness of self could have been the beginning of future abstract thought…Somewhere within that miasma of inherited change…(from a fortuitous notice of a naturally sharp edge to purposeful manufacture) Man continued the sharpening of his tools of survival


    40. • God is the only Creator of all things, of all the concrete and abstract, of what is above and what is below, of all entities and creatures

    41. Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size


    42. Plato’s approach was abstract


    43. These consisted of very colorful textiles with rather abstract representations of people, creatures, and temples or some sort of buildings and many very fine ceramics, which were a little more realistic (usually) and quite varied in shape and color


    44. Classes use the concept of abstraction and are defined as a list of abstract attributes such as


    45. Since the classes use the concept of data abstraction, they are known as Abstract Data Types (ADT)


    46. — nothing concrete or abstract you can point out to is you


    47. reject the non-dual reality as something imagined, an abstract


    48. “This painting is more abstract and requires one to look beyond the complex symbolism in order to decipher the true meaning of it,” he added and I resisted rolling my eyes


    49. They love to be abstract and vague, and they adore confusing the people


    50. Your greatest competitor in life is not some abstract concept of another species; your greatest competitor in life is another human being














































    1. They tore past the minister himself, just coming home from the station; he, being a little less dreamy and abstracted than usual--owing to having had a talk on the train with Miss Cornelia who always wakened him up temporarily--noticed them, and thought he really must speak to Faith about it and tell her that such conduct was not seemly


    2. After all, there WAS a certain divinity hedging a minister, even a poor, unworldly, abstracted one


    3. Meredith had not seen them, but he was not walking along in his usual dreamy and abstracted fashion


    4. The elder observed it attentively, abstracted in his contemplation, as one would look at an object that is known as dangerous


    5. What significance do small details cover when we have not left time to live! What a beautiful moment the present is! Abstracted in the timelessness of the moment, I did not listen to Leonardo


    6. He looked abstracted,


    7. He saw Ambrosius' abstracted look and walked over to where he stood in the doorway


    8. MSM’s hexavalent sulfur atom is abstracted by living organisms and is primarily used for the biochemical synthesis of


    9. This passage, this course and destination, animated by the vitalism of the world nested each in each, as sound to eye, touch to scent, is untraced, yet resonant in these visions of the imageless geometrically abstracted to a sense of phenomenal presence as embodied light


    10. How does one make actual progress in love abstracted or idealistically believed to exist beyond experience?

    11. That very day at the _table d'hote_ the abstracted lady sat next to me


    12. 'And now the note-book?' I asked; for he had relapsed into immobility, and was watching the socks with abstracted eyes


    13. Herr Dremmel bestowed a second abstracted kiss somewhere on his mother's head


    14. Again Frau Dremmel, as she had done that day at Meuk, turned her eyes slowly all over her while she was receiving her son's abstracted kiss; but she said nothing except, to her son, _Guten Tag_, and passively submitted to Ingeborg's shaking both her hands, which were clothed in the black cotton of decent widowhood


    15. She saw how abstracted he was


    16. These symbols were then concreted back into segments of metal: money was invented… which was then further abstracted back into pieces of paper


    17. in China: Nature worship became abstracted and codified into ‘The Dao’… or; ‘The Way Down’, while co-existing with ancestor worship and spirit gods


    18. It is a schizoid, sick, insane, numb, abstracted form of mental curiosity


    19. Instead it has abstracted the subconscious emotional fear of death; into a sick, cold, unemotional morgue of preserving dead fossils, dead tissues, dead organs, dead species… Trying to find out why they died… Why they went extinct


    20. The effect of tool evolution on people is that our values became abstracted

    21. Once human values became abstracted: actual human values became secondary


    22. Moreover: its expression has become abstracted and specialized into different niches of aberration which mirrors the split-off, aberrant development of the human psyche within a segmented social structure that has no balanced or universal code on how to raise its children


    23. Social values became abstracted


    24. It has successfully turned humans into more dehumanized, abstracted tool-slaves


    25. The actual living Jesus was abstracted and distorted by this inevitable process cultural abstraction and mythification so much: he has disappeared as a person


    26. No matter how much the truth is buried or twisted, or poisoned, or corrupted… no matter how abstracted it becomes, no matter how many different ways symbols are whitewashed and changed: the unexplored human subconscious still manages to re-surface the actual truth and tell the truth


    27. It is the deepest subconscious justification of their existence as rulers and heads of State, heads of capitalism, heads of corporation, heads of abstracted corporate bodies that are no longer flesh and blood bodies: but only exist on paper as pure abstractions


    28. Once these decapitated heads had been abstracted into small convenient miniature representative skulls


    29. After killing of Neanderthals: Modern man overpopulated Asia and Europe so densely: that we went back to what we had been doing for 60,000 fucking years before we developed an abstracted form of form of death and killing: killing other human beings


    30. We have abstracted our own hate, our own scorn, our own disrespect, our own revulsion, our own disgust, and our own fear: in so many ways; it would take ten thousand books to show how we abstractively express our revulsion… our hate, and on how many abstract levels, in how many abstract ways we do it by distancing ourselves from all directness and direct truth and direct experience,

    31. We have abstracted our own souls


    32. We have abstracted our awe, our wonder, our love of beauty also… The actual truth is buried under 50,000 years of disassociated, distanced, deflections and lies and denial and ignoring


    33. These abstracted representations are token symbols of actual decapitations


    34. Now: robbing and stealing and raiding has been abstracted and legalized


    35. The baby killer of the fleeing stork has been turned into the baby killer of the fictional story: abstracted into two-dimensional images and dehumanizing human children to the point where they become emotionally and mentally brainwashed before the ages of 4 or 5


    36. collections of symbols and methods that represent a larger body of abstracted knowledge and its


    37. abstracted concepts used to represent and model the larger macrocosm of derivative things,


    38. esoteric and abstracted wisdom


    39. understand esoteric and abstracted wisdom


    40. space-time activity, which are further abstracted into philosophical understandings and wisdom about

    41. space-time patterns in collective thought that are abstracted from the dualistic core of this reality out


    42. I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons


    43. Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind


    44. In Bond Street especially, where much of their business lay, her eyes were in constant inquiry; and in whatever shop the party were engaged, her mind was equally abstracted from every thing actually before them, from all that interested and occupied the others


    45. At first she gave him no glance of recognition; he was invisible to her abstracted gaze


    46. Because I think that this is the only virtue which remains in the State when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted; and, that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence of all of them, and while remaining in them is also their preservative; and we were saying that if the three were discovered by us, justice would be the fourth or remaining one


    47. And she leant her pretty head back against the sill, with a half a yawn and a half a sigh, and lapsed into an aspect of abstracted sadness: neither caring nor knowing whether we remarked her


    48. As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event


    49. "I little like that smoke, which you may see worming up along the rock above the canoe," interrupted the abstracted scout


    50. The wary, though seemingly abstracted Uncas, caught a glimpse of the movement, and turning suddenly to the light, their looks met
































    1. The abstracting of these deathsheads into ‘money” is the insane abomination of the worship and preservation of death and dead things: nothing else


    2. symbolically representing and abstracting various wisdom


    3. foundations, the literal images within the symbology are modeling and abstracting broad patterns of


    4. I went round by the garden, and laid wait for the messenger; who fought valorously to defend his trust, and we spilt the milk between us; but I succeeded in abstracting the epistle; and, threatening serious consequences if he did not look sharp home, I remained under the wall and perused Miss Cathy's affectionate composition


    5. "Let me take that pipe," she said, cautiously advancing her hand and abstracting it from his mouth


    6. Abstracting the kernel from the hardware makes it far easier to port the OS to different hardware platforms


    7. I went round by the garden, and laid wait for the messenger; who fought valorously to defend his trust, and we spilt the milk between us; but I succeeded in abstracting the epistle; and, threatening serious consequences if he did not look sharp home, I remained under the wall and perused Miss Cathy’s affectionate composition


    8. ‘Let me take that pipe,’ she said, cautiously advancing her hand and abstracting


    9. [1] Abstracting from important ethical issues and focusing only on financial returns, empirical evidence on the benefits of socially responsible investing (SRI) has been mixed


    10. Allowing the most favorable construction to this letter, and abstracting it from circumstances and facts both before and after its date, it will not bear gentlemen out in their conclusion; it does not satisfy your law, and did not warrant the state of things which has been and is about to be produced

    1. Then these abstracts are something she had never done before


    2. In the basement was a room full of computers and CD's with all sorts of abstracts and information about different periods in history


    3. As she gathered herself up and moved toward the library with its endless supply of informative CD's and scientific abstracts, a fresh image shuttered quickly through her brain


    4. This belief also contained remnants of the earlier Melchizedek teachings as is shown by the following abstracts:


    5. This database contains citations and often abstracts for over 15 million articles in over 4,800 biomedical journals on all aspects and allied health fields


    6. Magical events are too unique and ephemeral to be measured in a materialistic way because they are not mental abstracts but rather feelings


    7. It’s just my way of paying tribute to the people that deserve credit for the ideas in my head and for providing me with a vehicle to share those abstracts in some meaningful form


    8. At home, carried away by this subject, I dug through our entire family library and finally found a magazine with abstracts from the Bible about people Jesus had healed


    9. So the problem here is that all paintings and human creations are personal interpretations or abstracts of how the ‘artist’ perceives the subject matter


    10. Even in our deeds and abstracts the word forever is used in the transfer of real estate

    11. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!


    12. They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of 'Hop o' my Thumb,' and he has been making abstracts ever since


    13. original Red Book, as it did in several of the copies and abstracts


    14. As it was they watched, benumbed, as their portrait pictures, the vital stuffs of their mortal greed, rancor, and poisonous guilt, the emerald abstracts of their self-blinded eyes, self-wounded mouths, self-trapped bodies melted one by one from this insignificant mound of snow


    15. In it he will find abstracts of papers from a larger number of sources than he can possibly consult for himself, and many of these papers may be of great value to him


    16. Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Recorder of Land Titles for the Territory of Missouri to receive testimony in all the claims to land in which none has been adduced, and which are rejected in the report made by the late board of Commissioners for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the then district of Louisiana, now Territory of Missouri; and, afterwards, to arrange into classes, according to their respective merits, as well the claims embraced by this resolution, as the other rejected claims mentioned in said report, and made abstracts containing the substance of the evidence in support of such claims, and such other information and remarks as may be necessary to a proper decision thereon, and report on said claims to the General Commissioner of the Land Office; and that said committee have leave to report by bill, or otherwise


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    Synonyms for "abstract"

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    "abstract" definitions

    a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance


    a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory


    consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically


    make off with belongings of others


    consider apart from a particular case or instance


    give an abstract (of)


    existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment


    not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature


    dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention