The meaning of an abstract word

The meaning of an abstract word X, is what maps X onto an Event.

When I think of or hear 'ownership' or 'smell', I think of a 0.5-1 second video clip of some event/action related to 'owning something' or 'smelling something', in my mind, to come in touch with the meanings of those words. You need an imaginative actualisation, like is present in the case of physical tangible words. What is the word 'touch' otherwise? Just visual (while reading) or auditory (while listening) signals of a certain frequency going into the brain. For it to 'mean' something, it has to trigger some processes in the brain, whose equivalent is this imaginative actualisation mentioned before. Understanding (not something new), after all, is something external entering the mind and triggering what is already known/understood about it, in there. 

When I hear 'smell', I have to imagine some person smelling something. This is the event that the meaning of 'smell' has mapped the word onto, in the mind. 

When someone tells you - John gave 2000$ to Mary - how do you understand the scene? Or rather, how do you understand 'Gave'? Some part of your mind, quickly, for a fraction of a second, imagines hands transferring something material. This is the source of the commonsense interpretations related to that word; positive ones like - it was given with hands, it moved from possession at one location (hands of one) to another one (hands of the other), it isn't with both at the end of the action etc., as well as negative ones like - the hands weren't ablaze while giving it, there wasn't a gun in the hands simultaneously etc. This is also the Event which the meaning of the abstract word 'Gave' is mapped onto. 

It is impossible to actualise abstract words statically.

Vision isn't commonsensical in the way language is. In language, you skip the parts which are assumed (commonsense). But while seeing something, you would notice the commonsensical thing again, many times too. We all know that phones have a central main button; that doesn't mean we will not look at or notice or think about it when we look at the 500th phone we see in life. This is what makes us draw forth the details from the visual imagination like 'giving with HANDS', 'it cant be with BOTH at the end of the action' etc. - which are related to the commonsense inferences about the scene.