ABSTRACTS
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Scrabble
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WWF
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Definition
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.
Source: Wiktionary
