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I would like to thank the following persons for sending usefull information/bug reports. (in no particular order):
Matthew Clark (EamonNag WebMaster), Greg Boettcher, Peter Mattssons, David Whyld, A Ninny, and of course all the anonymous Beta-Testers!
Thanks also to everyone that sent an email without saying their names (which are quite few... you silly you) ;)
IFReviews Dictionary
Abstract
- Withdraw; separate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
- Abstracted; absent in mind.
- To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
- To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
- To epitomize; to abridge.
- To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
- 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.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- 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.
- A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
- An abstract term.
- 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.
