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| abstract |
When a painting or sculpture is abstract, you can't tell what it is. It has shapes and maybe color, but it's not a clear picture of anything. The artist may be trying to suggest a feeling or idea or maybe even people and things, but the artist is not trying to show those people and things as they are in reality. [1/3 definitions] |
| exist |
to be present in a particular place, or to be present in the world or in reality; have being. [1/3 definitions] |
| fact |
A fact is something that is real or that has happened or is happening in reality. [1/2 definitions] |
| in fact |
in reality; really; indeed. |
| model |
a very small copy of a thing that exists or used to exist in reality, constructed for one's own entertainment. [1/12 definitions] |
| should |
used to express someone's opinion of the proper behavior or state of something, even if it is not true in reality. [1/5 definitions] |
| wild |
If something like an idea or proposal is wild, it seems crazy to people. It seems like it can't be done or it could be risky. It seems like it could only exist or happen in someone's imagination and not in reality. [1/9 definitions] |
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