Art

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
  • n. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
  • n. The study of these activities.
  • n. The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.
  • n. High quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value.
  • n. A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.
  • n. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
  • n. A system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities: the art of building.
  • n. A trade or craft that applies such a system of principles and methods: the art of the lexicographer.
  • n. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation: the art of the baker; the blacksmith's art.
  • n. Skill arising from the exercise of intuitive faculties: "Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice” ( Joyce Carol Oates).
  • n. Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.
  • n. Artful contrivance; cunning.
  • n. Printing Illustrative material.
  • v. Archaic A second person singular present indicative of be.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. this sense?) (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
  • n. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
  • n. Activity intended to make something special.
  • n. A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgments.
  • n. The study and the product of these processes.
  • n. Aesthetic value.
  • n. Artwork.
  • n. A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
  • n. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
  • n. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
  • v. Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.
  • Word Usage
    "ATTRIBUTION: HILTON KRAMER, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960s when the term “minimal art” was in vogue."
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    be   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    duplicity    artifice    trade    profession    literature    calling    readiness    contrivance    dexterity    business   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bart    Carte    Descartes    Hart    Harte    Start    apart    bart    cart    chart   
    Same Context
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    science    history    music    literature    power    beauty    culture    glyptic    11th-century    poetry