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Pronunciation:  ârt

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
  2. [n]  the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
  3. [n]  a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
  4. [n]  photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"
 
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 Synonyms: artistic creation, artistic production, artistry, artwork, fine art, graphics, nontextual matter, prowess
 
 See Also: airmanship, artificial flower, aviation, carving, ceramics, commercial art, creation, creation, creative activity, cyberart, dance, decal, decalcomania, decoupage, decoupage, diptych, drafting, draftsmanship, drawing, drawing, enology, falconry, fortification, gem, genre, glyptography, graphic art, grotesque, homiletics, horology, illustration, kitsch, minstrelsy, mosaic, music, musicianship, oenology, origami, painting, perfumery, plastic art, printmaking, publication, puppetry, sculpture, superior skill, taxidermy, topiary, treasure, triptych, ventriloquism, ventriloquy, visual communication, work of art

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Art\ ([aum]rt).
    The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense,
    of the substantive verb {Be}; but formed after the analogy of
    the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt,
    orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. {Be}.
    Now used only in solemn or poetical style.
    
  2. \Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in
    joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat,
    article.]
    1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end;
       the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses
       of life; the application of knowledge or power to
       practical purposes.
             Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope.
    2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of
       certain actions; a system of principles and rules for
       attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special
       work; -- often contradistinguished from science or
       speculative principles; as, the art of building or
       engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.
             Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is
             knowledge made efficient by skill.    --J. F.
                                                   Genung.
    3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in
       effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or
       business requiring such knowledge or skill.
             The fishermen can't employ their art with so much
             success in so troubled a sea.         --Addison.
    4. The application of skill to the production of the
       beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in
       which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture;
       one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.
    5. pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the
       academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
             In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.
                                                   --Pope.
             Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in
             colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a
             foundation.                           --Goldsmith.
    6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.
       [Archaic]
             So vast is art, so narrow human wit.  --Pope.
    7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain
       actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation;
       knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to
       advantage.
    8. Skillful plan; device.
             They employed every art to soothe . . . the
             discontented warriors.                --Macaulay.
    9. Cunning; artifice; craft.
             Madam, I swear I use no art at all.   --Shak.
             Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors
             in strength.                          --Crabb.
    10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak.
    {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and
       abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime,
       whether by advice or by assistance in the execution;
       complicity.
    Note: The arts are divided into various classes.
    {The useful, mechanical, or industrial arts} are those in
       which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind;
       as in making clothes and utensils. These are called
       trades.
    {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with
       imagination and taste, and are applied to the production
       of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music,
       painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the
       term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and
       architecture.
    {The liberal arts} (artes liberales, the higher arts, which,
       among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue)
       were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of
       learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic,
       geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the
       liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history,
       etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate
       education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor
       of arts.
             In America, literature and the elegant arts must
             grow up side by side with the coarser plants of
             daily necessity.                      --Irving.
    Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill;
         dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession;
         business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity.
         See {Science}.
    
 
Computing Dictionary
 
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A real-time functional language. It timestamps each data value when it was created.

["Applicative Real-Time Programming", M. Broy, PROC IFIP 1983, N-H].

 
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