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art

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What does art mean?

noun

  1. 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.
  2. The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
  3. Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
More meanings (18)

noun

  1. The study and the product of these processes.
  2. Aesthetic value.
  3. Artwork.
  4. A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
  5. (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
  6. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
  7. Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time.
  8. Abbreviation of assisted reproductive technology.
  9. Abbreviation of Androgen Replacement Therapy.
  10. Abbreviation of Active Release Technique.
  11. Abbreviation of Adaptive resonance theory.
  12. Abbreviation of Algebraic Reconstruction Technique.
  13. Abbreviation of Alternative Risk Transfer.
  14. Abbreviation of acoustic resonance technology.
  15. Abbreviation of antiretroviral therapy.
  16. (dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.

verb

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be: [you] are

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IPA pronunciation

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/əɹt/
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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.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
The Rabbi now dismounted in great alarm, and hastily applied the remedies which his art suggested for the recovery of his companion.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
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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.”
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
The mummers themselves were not afflicted with any such feeling for their art, though at the same time they were not enthusiastic.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
I saw some of the impressions referred to above, and they were certainly well developed, and very superior specimens of our art.
S. D. (Samuel Dwight) HumphreyAmerican Hand Book of the DaguerreotypeProject Gutenberg ebook #167