1. the quality, production, expression, or realm of things that conform to accepted aesthetic principles of beauty, show imagination and skill, and have more than ordinary meaning and importance: Art is a characteristic human activity.My parents and I disagree about what qualifies as art.
2. the class of objects that meet or are subject to aesthetic criteria; objects considered beautiful, imaginative, skillful, and meaningful collectively, such as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: The palace houses a remarkable collection of art.The local museum of art currently has a special exhibit of the works of Kurelek.
3. the visual or fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: She dabbled in art, including painting and sculpture.
4. the fine arts together with literature and the performing arts: I attended a high school that emphasized the arts, and I took every drama course I could.There never seems to be enough public funding for the arts.
5. a field, genre, or category of creative, imaginative, skilled activity that meets or is subject to aesthetic criteria: Poetry and dance are arts.
6. any craft or field of creative activity applying aesthetic principles, skill, and technique: She does graphic art for an advertising company.
7. arts,
• the cluster of academic disciplines dealing with art, literature, languages, philosophy, etc., as distinct from the natural and social sciences and the technical or professional fields; the humanities: He teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences.There are fewer opportunities these days for graduates with a degree in arts.
• the humanities together with the natural and social sciences, as opposed to the professional and technical fields; liberal arts: Are you at the Faculty of Arts, or at one of the professional faculties?
8. a branch of learning or university study, especially one of the fine arts or the humanities, such as music, philosophy, or literature: We attended a brilliant lecture on the role of the arts of philosophy and rhetoric in expanding knowledge.
• the principles, techniques, or methods governing any craft, trade, or profession: the art of baking;the art of selling.
• the craft, trade, or profession using these principles, techniques, or methods.
10. skill in conducting any human activity: You are a master at the art of conversation!From my mother, I learned the art of making perfectly cooked pasta.
11. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature:Do these shrubs in your garden owe their shape to art or to nature?
12. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?
13. trickery or cunning, or an instance of this: Don’t be taken in by their devious art.She is adept at the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
14. pretense or artificiality in behavior: He had a manner free of art and affectation.
15. science, learning, or scholarship.

16. to improve the aesthetic quality of (something) through some form of art: This dress is so plain, it could use some arting up.I had an interior designer art up my apartment.

1. 2nd person singular present indicative of be.

1. a male given name, form of Arthur.

1. article: often used to represent the class of determiners, including words such as this, that, and some as well as the articles a, an, and the.

1. variant of -ard: braggart.

1. article; articles.
2. artificial.
3. artillery.
4. artist.

• the creation of works of beauty or other special significance
• (as modifier)
2. the exercise of human skill (as distinguished from nature)
3. imaginative skill as applied to representations of the natural world or figments of the imagination
• the products of man's creative activities; works of art collectively, esp of the visual arts, sometimes also music, drama, dance, and literature
• (as modifier)
5. excellence or aesthetic merit of conception or execution as exemplified by such works
6. any branch of the visual arts, esp painting
7. intended to be artistic or decorative
• any field using the techniques of art to display artistic qualities
• (as modifier)
9. photographs or other illustrations in a newspaper, etc
10. method, facility, or knack
11. the system of rules or principles governing a particular human activity
12. artfulness; cunning
13. to become highly proficient at something through practice

1. archaic (used with the pronoun thou) a singular form of the present tense (indicative mood) of be 1

1. assisted reproductive technology

1. a variant of -ard

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