abstracted

Related to abstracted: censorious, abortive, jaundiced, commuted

abstract (something) from (something or some place)

1. To take something without permission. Despite all of the company's security measures, hackers abstracted classified information from the server.
2. To extract key information from a longer document or text. I had to abstract all of the relevant information from that lengthy report and then present it to management.
See also: abstract

abstract away

1. To eliminate, omit, or disregard the details of something in order to generalize or simplify it at a conceptual level. A noun or pronoun can be used between "abstract" and "away." Remember that you will be delivering the results of your work to members of the public, so try to abstract away the more complicated aspects of the scientific theory. The agency abstracted the more sensitive details of the incident away, leaving a heavily redacted report that only revealed what happened in broad strokes.
2. In computer science, to hide, obscure, or mask the details of some process in order to simplify its functionality for the sake of usability. A noun or pronoun can be used between "abstract" and "away." Even simple actions on the computer create incredibly complicated processes in the software, but programmers have abstracted away the more nitty-gritty details in order to keep the average user from getting overwhelmed.
See also: abstract, away
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • abstract
  • abstract (something) from (something or some place)
  • abstract from
  • clearance
  • get (the) clearance to (do something)
  • give (one) (the) clearance to (do something)
  • leak (something) to (someone or something)
  • leak to
  • give under threat of
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The first type utilizes the ICD-9 codes to make a statement regarding severity, while the second type uses clinical data abstracted from the patient chart.
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The resulting painting, one of the freshest Kandinsky ever made, is an abstracted recollection of the concert hall dominated by a black, piano-like shape on a yellow ground.
An eye for an ear: art & music in the twentieth century
I abstracted an old car (see photo above, lower left) by moving in on it from an oblique angle, showing only the detail on one of its lights and part of its hood and radiator.
Using vantage point to abstract subject and stress detail
Abstract are assigned to one of 80 subject sections of the CAS database according to the principal subject matter of the abstracted paper or patent.
Growth in biotech, materials science reflected in CAS database