Mots en English pour 'not practical or realizable; speculative'
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adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
adj
noun
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- using or containing too many words
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
noun
adj
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- associated with academia or an academy
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
noun
- an educator who works at a college or university
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
adj
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
noun
adj
noun
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
adj
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
noun
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
verb
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- 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.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
name
noun
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
adj
noun
adj
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- not based on fact or investigation
- showing curiosity
- not financially safe or secure
noun
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
adj
noun
- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
noun
- (figurative) A possibility.
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figurative) A barrier.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- (architecture) A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
- (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.
- The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
- (figurative) A means of approach or access.
- a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- anything providing a means of access (or escape)
- a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
- the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- a room that is entered via a door
verb
adj
adv
noun
noun
- an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values
- (music) The diametric opposite of interpolation.
- An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
- (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
prefix
- hypothetical, fictional
- To do the root.
- Uniform, or made to be the same as.
- A fellow kind of the root.
- Together: the root is done together.
- Synchronous or simultaneous with the root.
- Found with. What is found with the root.
- Intensifying the root.
- Belonging to the same group indicated by the root.
- Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence
- related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.
- To surround or adorn with
- From, coming from the root.
- When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other.
- constructed, artificial
- Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
- Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word.
noun
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
- A hump; a protuberance.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the act of bending yourself into a humped position
verb
- (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
- (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
noun
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
name
noun
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
adj
noun
noun
- (figurative) A possibility.
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figurative) A barrier.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- (architecture) A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
- (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.
- The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
- (figurative) A means of approach or access.
- a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- anything providing a means of access (or escape)
- a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
- the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- a room that is entered via a door
verb
noun
- an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values
- (music) The diametric opposite of interpolation.
- An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
- (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
noun
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
- A hump; a protuberance.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the act of bending yourself into a humped position
verb
- (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
- (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
noun
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
adj
noun
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- using or containing too many words
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
noun
adj
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- associated with academia or an academy
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
noun
- an educator who works at a college or university
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
adj
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
noun
adj
noun
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
adj
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
noun
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
verb
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- 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.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
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- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- not based on fact or investigation
- showing curiosity
- not financially safe or secure
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- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.