Harry Shaw may refer to: 1  Harry Shaw (footballer) (1905â1984), English footballer who played for Sunderland as a full back.  Harry Shaw (ice hockey) (born 1943), retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
An abstract noun is a word for something that can't be experienced by any of the five senses; it can't be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. An abstract noun is a word for something that can only be known, understood, learned, believed, or felt emotionally. Some examples of abstract nouns are: There are some nouns that can be either abstract or concrete depending on use. For example, there's the physical heart that is beating in your chest and the heart of the matter or a broken heart. Then there are the tricky ones, the ones that you really have to think about.
Use the adjective abstract for something that is not a material object or is general and not based on specific examples. Abstract is from a Latin word meaning pulled away, detached, and the basic idea is of something detached from physical, or concrete, reality. It is frequently used of ideas, meaning that they don't have a clear applicability to real life, and of art, meaning that it doesn't pictorially represent reality.