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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
abstract
ab·stract AW [abstract abstracts abstracted abstracting] adjective, noun, verb
adjective BrE [ˈæbstrækt] ; NAmE [ˈæbstrækt]
1. based on general ideas and not on any particular real person, thing or situation
•abstract knowledge/principles
•The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
compare ↑concrete adj. (2)
2. existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical reality
•We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract.
3. (of art)not representing people or things in a realistic way, but expressing the artist's ideas about them
•the work of American abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko
compare ↑figurative (2), ↑representational
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.
Example Bank:
•Abstract principles are no good in this particular situation.
•All human beings are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
•Freedom is more than a purely abstract notion.
•Mathematics is an extremely abstract discipline.
•Some of the ideas that their legal system is based on are incredibly abstract.
Idiom: ↑in the abstract
Derived Word: ↑abstractly
noun BrE [ˈæbstrækt] ; NAmE [ˈæbstrækt]
1. an ↑abstract work of art
•Kandinsky's first pure abstracts are marked by their wild colour.
2. a short piece of writing containing the main ideas in a document
Syn: ↑summary
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.
Example Bank:
•Abstracts of about 300 words should be submittted to the conference committee who will decide which papers to accept.
•This information is supplementary to the abstract of accounts.
verb BrE [æbˈstrækt] ; NAmE [æbˈstrækt]
1. ~ sth (from sth) to remove sth from somewhere
•She abstracted the main points from the argument.
•a plan to abstract 8 million gallons of water from the river
2. ~ sth (technical)to make a written summary of a book, etc.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.
Example Bank:
•Their plan is to abstract 8 million gallons of water from the river.
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