Synonyms of the word

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

abstraction

• n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken…
• n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
• n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;…
• n. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the…
• n. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
• n. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
• n. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational…
• n. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
• n. An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
• n. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
• n. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so,…
• n. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality…
• n. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

abstractionist

• adj. Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
• n. An idealist.
• n. Someone who supports or creates abstract art.

cabbage

• n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• n. Used as a term of endearment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
• n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
• n. The cabbage palmetto.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
• v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

concept

• n. abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
• n. understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic,…
• n. (programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their…

conception

• n. The act of conceiving.
• n. The state of being conceived; the beginning.
• n. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
• n. The start of pregnancy.
• n. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
• n. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation…
• n. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

conceptional

• adj. Of or relating to conception.
• adj. Relating to a concept, idea, or thought. (More often, conceptual.).

conceptual

• adj. Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination.
• adj. Of, or relating to conceptualism.

consider

• v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
• v. (transitive) To think of doing.
• v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
• v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
• v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
• v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
• v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

construct

• n. Something constructed from parts.
• n. A concept or model.
• n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
• v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
• v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

filch

• v. (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
• n. Something which has been filched or stolen.
• n. An act of filching; larceny, theft.
• n. (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
• n. (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

ideal

• adj. Optimal; being the best possibility.
• adj. Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
• adj. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
• adj. Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
• adj. Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
• adj. (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
• n. A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
• n. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary…

ideational

• adj. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.

impalpable

• adj. Not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial.

intangible

• adj. incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
• n. Anything intangible.
• n. (law) Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds,…

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

nonfigurative

• adj. Not figurative.

nonobjective

• n. With respect to an assignment or mission, something that is not an objective or goal.
• adj. Not objective; biased.

nonrepresentational

• adj. Not representational.
• adj. (art) That does not represent a physical object realistically.

notional

• adj. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
• adj. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
• adj. (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
• adj. (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount.

outline

• n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
• n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
• n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
• n. A general description of some subject.
• n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
• n. A preliminary plan for a project.
• n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
• v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
• v. (transitive) To summarize something.

pilfer

• v. To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

precis

• n. Alternative spelling of précis.

purloin

• v. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to…
• v. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

regard

• n. (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
• n. One's concern for another; esteem.
• n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
• n. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value,…
• v. To look at; to observe.
• v. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To face toward.
• v. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.

resume

• v. (now rare) To take back possession of (something).
• v. (now rare) To summarise.
• v. To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused;…
• n. (US) A summary of education and employment experience.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

snarf

• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
• v. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take…
• v. (transitive, slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

sum-up

• n. A summary.

summarise

• v. To prepare a summary of something.
• v. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

summarize

• v. To prepare a summary of something.
• v. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

summary

• adj. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.
• adj. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
• adj. (law) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
• n. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

swipe

• v. (transitive) To steal or snatch.
• v. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
• v. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
• n. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
• n. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
• n. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
• n. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

synopsis

• n. A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or…
• n. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

theoretical

• adj. Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.