English words for 'a special abstraction'
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noun
- a special abstraction
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
verb
noun
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
verb
noun
- an abstract part of something
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- (graph theory) A connected subgraph that is not part of any larger connected subgraph.
- A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
adj
noun
- an abstract part of something
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes
- (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- (politics) A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
- (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
- (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
- A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
- A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
- A part, or component of a whole.
adj
noun
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
noun
- an abstract part of something
- one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer
- any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
- (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
- anything that contributes causally to a result
- an independent variable in statistics
- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
- A commission agent.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
- (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
verb
- resolve into factors
- consider as relevant when making a decision
- be a contributing factor
- (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
- (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
- (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- give an abstract (of)
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (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
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- 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.
- 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
adj
- 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.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (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.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- 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 abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an act of narration
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- The act of relating a story.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
noun
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
- a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
prep
- Expressing abstract containment.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- Into.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
adv
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- to or toward the inside of
noun
noun
- (software) Initialism of abstract state machine.
- Initialism of administrative staff meeting.
- (military, sometimes proscribed) Initialism of anti-ship missile.
- (electromechanics, electronics, automotive) Abbreviation of asynchronous motor.
- (theater) Initialism of assistant stage manager.
- (computer languages) Abbreviation of assembly language.
- (military) Initialism of air-to-surface missile.
name
adv
- (abstract) In this context.
- (abstract) In this matter.
- (abstract) At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
- (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
- (location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
- (as complement of 'be') Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
- (location) To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.
- (informal or dialect) After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
- to this place (especially toward the speaker)
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
- at this time; now
adj
intj
- Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.
- (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
- Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.
- (informal) Used to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.
- (Ireland, British, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
noun
noun
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
- A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
- A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
- (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
noun
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
- special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.
- (heraldry) A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- Something that represents a larger whole.
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
noun
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- The process of embodying.
noun
- a personified abstraction that teaches
- a person whose occupation is teaching
- A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
- (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
- An indication; a lesson.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
noun
- a system of symbols and symbolic representations
- an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
- (art) An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
- Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
noun
- The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
- The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
- a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
noun
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
name
noun
- (programming) Initialism of single abstract method.
- (BDSM) Initialism of smartass masochist; a brat.
- (nanotechnology) Initialism of self-assembled monolayer.
- (military) Initialism of surface-to-air missile.
- Initialism of shared appreciation mortgage.
- (cardiology) Initialism of systolic anterior motion.
- (psychology) Initialism of split attraction model.
- a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
name
noun
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- The status or condition of something
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
- Form; formation.
- (geometry) A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb
- shape or influence; give direction to
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
adj
noun
- An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
- a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
noun
- regarding something abstract as a material thing
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
noun
- a special abstraction
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
verb
noun
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
verb
noun
- an abstract part of something
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- (graph theory) A connected subgraph that is not part of any larger connected subgraph.
- A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
adj
noun
- an abstract part of something
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes
- (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- (politics) A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
- (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
- (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
- A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
- A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
- A part, or component of a whole.
adj
noun
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
noun
- an abstract part of something
- one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer
- any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
- (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
- anything that contributes causally to a result
- an independent variable in statistics
- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
- A commission agent.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
- (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
verb
- resolve into factors
- consider as relevant when making a decision
- be a contributing factor
- (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
- (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
- (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
noun
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an act of narration
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- The act of relating a story.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
noun
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
- a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
noun
- (software) Initialism of abstract state machine.
- Initialism of administrative staff meeting.
- (military, sometimes proscribed) Initialism of anti-ship missile.
- (electromechanics, electronics, automotive) Abbreviation of asynchronous motor.
- (theater) Initialism of assistant stage manager.
- (computer languages) Abbreviation of assembly language.
- (military) Initialism of air-to-surface missile.
name
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- give an abstract (of)
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (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
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- 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.
- 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
adj
- 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.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (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.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- 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
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
- A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
- A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
- (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
noun
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
- special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.
- (heraldry) A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- Something that represents a larger whole.
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
noun
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- The process of embodying.
noun
- a personified abstraction that teaches
- a person whose occupation is teaching
- A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
- (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
- An indication; a lesson.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
noun
- a system of symbols and symbolic representations
- an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
- (art) An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
- Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
noun
- The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
- The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
- a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
noun
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
name
noun
- (programming) Initialism of single abstract method.
- (BDSM) Initialism of smartass masochist; a brat.
- (nanotechnology) Initialism of self-assembled monolayer.
- (military) Initialism of surface-to-air missile.
- Initialism of shared appreciation mortgage.
- (cardiology) Initialism of systolic anterior motion.
- (psychology) Initialism of split attraction model.
- a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
name
noun
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- The status or condition of something
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
- Form; formation.
- (geometry) A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
verb
- shape or influence; give direction to
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
noun
- An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
- a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
noun
- regarding something abstract as a material thing
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- give an abstract (of)
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (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
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- 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.
- 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
adj
- 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.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (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.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- 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
adv
- (abstract) In this context.
- (abstract) In this matter.
- (abstract) At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
- (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
- (location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
- (as complement of 'be') Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
- (location) To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.
- (informal or dialect) After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
- to this place (especially toward the speaker)
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
- at this time; now
adj
intj
- Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.
- (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
- Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.
- (informal) Used to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.
- (Ireland, British, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.