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art
/ɑɹt/
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What does art mean?
noun
- The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
More meanings (18)
noun
- The study and the product of these processes.
- Aesthetic value.
- Artwork.
- A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
- Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time.
- Abbreviation of assisted reproductive technology.
- Abbreviation of Androgen Replacement Therapy.
- Abbreviation of Active Release Technique.
- Abbreviation of Adaptive resonance theory.
- Abbreviation of Algebraic Reconstruction Technique.
- Abbreviation of Alternative Risk Transfer.
- Abbreviation of acoustic resonance technology.
- Abbreviation of antiretroviral therapy.
- (dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.
verb
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be: [you] are
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IPA pronunciation
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The improvements in the art of navigation have, as to the facility of communication, rendered distant nations, in a great measure, neighbors.
The Rabbi now dismounted in great alarm, and hastily applied the remedies which his art suggested for the recovery of his companion.
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“I know tha’ thinks I’m a queer lad,” he said, “but I think tha’ art th’ queerest little lass I ever saw.”
The mummers themselves were not afflicted with any such feeling for their art, though at the same time they were not enthusiastic.
I saw some of the impressions referred to above, and they were certainly well developed, and very superior specimens of our art.