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- 1 A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.
- 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. uncountable
"There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism."
- 2 Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 3 the creation of beautiful or significant things wordnet
- 4 The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. uncountable
- 5 Abbreviation of assisted reproductive technology. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
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- 6 the products of human creativity; works of art collectively wordnet
- 7 Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. countable
"She's mastered the art of programming."
- 8 Abbreviation of Androgen Replacement Therapy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 9 a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation wordnet
- 10 The study and the product of these processes. uncountable
"He's at university to study art."
- 11 Abbreviation of Active Release Technique. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 12 photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication wordnet
- 13 Aesthetic value. uncountable
"Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them."
- 14 Abbreviation of Adaptive resonance theory. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 15 Artwork. uncountable
"Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions."
- 16 Abbreviation of Algebraic Reconstruction Technique. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 17 A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature. countable
"I'm a great supporter of the arts."
- 18 Abbreviation of Alternative Risk Transfer. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 19 (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology. countable
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
- 20 Abbreviation of acoustic resonance technology. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 21 Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation. countable
"A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art."
- 22 Abbreviation of antiretroviral therapy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 23 Contrivance, scheming, manipulation. dated, uncountable
"it was not art, Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke— When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak."
- 1 second-person singular simple present indicative of be archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
"How great thou art!"
Etymology
From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *art (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”). Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.
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