Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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
- n. this sense?) (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
- n. uncountable 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. uncountable Activity intended to make something special.
- n. uncountable A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgments.
- n. uncountable The study and the product of these processes.
- n. uncountable Aesthetic value.
- n. uncountable, printing Artwork.
- n. countable A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- n. countable A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- n. countable Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- v. archaic Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English eart ("(thou) art"), second-person singular present indicative of beon-wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iranan (“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. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ars, art-; see ar- in Indo-European roots.Middle English, from Old English eart; see er-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“ATTRIBUTION: HILTON KRAMER, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960s when the term minimal art was in vogue.”
“NATURE, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art, of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.”
“Cellinis use of the word arte for the art or trade of goldsmiths corresponds to the art as used by English writers early in this century.”
“Artistic and literary history is, therefore, _a historical work of art founded upon one or more works of art_.”
“The only way in which art could disallow such criticism would be to protest its irresponsible infancy, and admit that it was a more or less amiable blatancy in individuals, and not _art_ at all.”
“But, asks the reader, if every human activity resulting in visible or audible form is to be considered, at least potentially, as art; what becomes of _art_ as distinguished from _craft_, or rather what is the difference between what we all mean by art and what we all mean by”
“Throughout the previous part of the world's history art and craft have been one and the same, at the utmost distinguishable only from a different point of view: _craft_ from the practical side, _art_ from the contemplative.”
“Every trade concerned with visible or audible objects or movements has also been an art; and every one of those great creative activities, for which, in their present isolation, we now reserve the name of _art_, has also been a craft; has been connected and replenished with life by the making of things which have a use, or by the doing of deeds which have a meaning.”
“The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_.”
“Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the _art_ of man, as in many other things, in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘art’.
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
aesthetic, alienation, art, behaviour, bourgeois, bureaucracy, capitalism, career, charity, city, civilization, class and 99 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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Roots
act, aer, ambul, ami, amo, anim, ann, enn, arch, rcha, rchae, archi and 139 more...
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things (good)
things you may rise above with.
goto things (bad)
( randomness, events, situations, nouns )charity, benevolence, status, feral donkeys, instincts, mind, friendship, business, invention, research, discovery, art and 21 more...
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everything
everythin?
a, i, aardvark, abdominals, any, anti-, ash, actuall, actually, add, abs, ass and 43 more...
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Things I'd Buy if I Won a Million Dol...
We can dream can't we. Add one add all!
love, tree fort, vacations, prowler, lenses, sphynix cats, gas, pre-wrapped bacon, more kraft dinner, art, k-car, an exotic pet, li... and 10 more...
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words in quotes
single words to be used in quotations more frequently than not.
( randomness )reality, sleep, science, scientist, art, laws, failure, god, man, mankind, artist
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knack
know-how, art, hang, bent, flair, touch, method, nose, genius, gift, faculty, instinct and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for art.
Telofy That one is my own creation. :-)
The idea came to me when I read the sentences "What exactly are you a professor of, Mr. Logan?" – "Art."
I just wasn't so sure about the "of". Someone clumsily trying to ancientize his sentence would probably also try and avoid preposition stranding but a reordering of the words would distract from the nub of the joke, so I changed that from the beginning. May 8, 2009
yarb Ha ha! That's a good 'un!
Do you write your own gags, telofy? May 8, 2009
Telofy "Of what exactly are you a professor?"
"Art."
"OK, of what exactly art thou a professor?" May 8, 2009
kewpid “… when you do something and other people talk about it�?.
— Liza Ghorbani, ‘Doing Things You’re Not’ New York Times (7 November, 2008) Nov 16, 2008
lampbane Watertown International Airport. Oct 24, 2008
sakhalinskii "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton Jul 30, 2008
oroboros A certain man was accosting people on the street and telling every other one, "Rather than just mindlessly attacking the arts, why not ask yourselves this:
Does what I see, hear and read that other men produce make me feel better or not?"...
One of the pedestrians so spoken to responded by saying,
"Why not instead ask if what others produce artistically makes you feel more like a human or not?"
And the man replied, "Would prove nothing."
--Jan Cox Nov 17, 2007