The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word ABSTRACTED
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More clues leading to the result ABSTRACTED
- Summary by editor withdrawn
- Preoccupied when taken out
- Loosely based around a piece of land miles away
- It’s taken out in wool-gathering
- Daydreaming, make wrong bet at cards
- Removed, being absent-minded
- Drew away from cab and started moving
- Removed vehicles, after time, turned up in a plot
- Summarised and withdrawn
- Walked off with head in the clouds
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The straight part
We know that "taken out/in wool-gathering" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case taken out/in wool-gathering = abstracted.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABSTRACTED mean?
ABSTRACTED verb- To separate; to disengage.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To extract by means of distillation.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To create abstractions.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
- Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
- Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
- Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.