Abstract vs. Introduction

Abstractnoun

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.

Abstractnoun

Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.

Abstractnoun

Concentrated essence of a product.

Abstractnoun

(medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.

Abstractnoun

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.

Abstractnoun

The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.

Abstractnoun

(arts) An abstract work of art.

Abstractnoun

(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

Abstractadjective

(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

Abstractadjective

Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

Abstractadjective

Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.

Abstractadjective

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific.

Abstractadjective

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

Abstractadjective

(archaic) Absent-minded.

Abstractadjective

(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

Abstractadjective

Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century.

Abstractadjective

(music) Absolute.

Abstractadjective

(dance) Lacking a story.

Abstractadjective

Insufficiently factual.

Abstractadjective

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

Abstractadjective

(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

Abstractadjective

(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Abstractverb

(transitive) To separate; to disengage.

Abstractverb

(transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.

Abstractverb

To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

Abstractverb

(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.

Abstractverb

To extract by means of distillation.

Abstractverb

(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

Abstractverb

To withdraw oneself; to retire.

Abstractverb

(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).

Abstractverb

To perform the process of abstraction.

Abstractverb

To create abstractions.

Abstractverb

To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

Abstractadjective

Withdraw; separate.

Abstractadjective

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Abstractadjective

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; - opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.

Abstractadjective

Abstracted; absent in mind.

Abstractverb

To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

Abstractverb

To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.

Abstractverb

To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.

Abstractverb

To epitomize; to abridge.

Abstractverb

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

Abstractverb

To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

Abstractverb

To perform the process of abstraction.

Abstractnoun

That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

Abstractnoun

A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

Abstractnoun

An abstract term.

Abstractnoun

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

Abstractnoun

a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance;

Abstractnoun

a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

Abstractverb

consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

Abstractverb

make off with belongings of others

Abstractverb

consider apart from a particular case or instance;

Abstractverb

give an abstract (of)

Abstractadjective

existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment;

Abstractadjective

not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature;

Abstractadjective

based on specialized theory;

Abstractadjective

dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention;

Introductionnoun

The act or process of introducing.

Introductionnoun

A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.

Introductionnoun

An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.

Introductionnoun

A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.

Introductionnoun

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

Introductionnoun

The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

Introductionnoun

That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.

Introductionnoun

A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.

Introductionnoun

the first section of a communication

Introductionnoun

the act of beginning something new;

Introductionnoun

formally making a person known to another or to the public

Introductionnoun

a basic or elementary instructional text

Introductionnoun

a new proposal;

Introductionnoun

the act of putting one thing into another

Introductionnoun

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

Introductionnoun

the action of introducing something

Introductionnoun

a thing newly brought into use or introduced to a place for the first time

Introductionnoun

a formal presentation of one person to another, in which each is told the other's name

Introductionnoun

a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech

Introductionnoun

a preliminary section in a piece of music, often thematically different from the main section

Introductionnoun

a book or course of study intended to introduce a subject to a person

Introductionnoun

a person's first experience of a subject or thing