art
Meanings
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.
- 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.
- Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
verb
- second-person singular simple present indicative of be: [you] are
name
- A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.
noun
- Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Latin artemder. Old French artbor. Middle English art English art 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. See also archaic English list (“art, craft, cunning, skill”).
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