Decrease and Abstract

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance.
  • usage: "he loved her only in the abstract-not in person"
  • synonyms: abstraction
• A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
  • synonyms: outline, synopsis, precis

verb

• Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
• Consider apart from a particular case or instance.
  • usage: "Let's abstract away from this particular example"
• Give an abstract (of. )

adjective

• Existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment.
  • usage: "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"
• Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature.
  • usage: "a large abstract painting"
  • synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective
• Dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention.
  • usage: "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

• (a.) Withdraw; separate.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
• (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
• (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
• (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
• (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
• (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
• (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel or money from a till.
• (a.) 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.
• (v.t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
• (a.) 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.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract or apart from other associated things.
• (a.) An abstract term.
• (a.) 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.

ABSTRACT is the notes made by a title examiner based on his examination of the land records. These notes are a concise summary of the transactions affecting the property. The title agency produces a BINDER from the information in the abstract.