<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea</li><li>expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed</li><li>not applied or practical; theoretical: abstract science</li><li>difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations</li><li>of or relating to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another</li><li>pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome</li><li>something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence</li><li>an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object</li><li>an abstract work of art</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to make an abstract of; summarize</li><li>to draw or take away; remove</li><li>to divert or draw away the attention of</li><li>to steal</li><li>to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter</li></ul>