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art¹

  • /ɑːt/ UK
  • /ɑɹt/ US
  • [ɑːʔ] Estuary English
  • [äˑɹt] Ireland
  • [-ɻ-] Ireland
  • [ɑˑɻt] Ireland, Ulster
  • [aːt] Northern England, Wales
  • [äːt] Northern England, Wales
  • [ɒːt] Northern England, Wales, Geordie
  • [ɒət] New York City
  • [ɒɹt] New York City
  • [ɑ̈ɹt] Canada
  • [ɐɹt] Canada, Atlantic Canada
  • /ɐːt/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [äːt] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ɑːt/ General South African
  • [ɑːtʰ] General South African
  • [-tsʰ] General South African

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

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”).

noun arts

  1. uncountable 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. There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
  2. uncountable The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
  3. countable Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. She's mastered the art of programming.
  4. uncountable The study and the product of these processes. He's at university to study art.
  5. uncountable Aesthetic value. Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
  6. uncountable Artwork. Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
  7. countable A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature. I'm a great supporter of the arts.
  8. countable (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology. Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is s
  9. countable Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation. A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
  10. dated, uncountable Contrivance, scheming, manipulation. it was not art, Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke— When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.

art²

  • /ɑːt/ UK
  • /ɑɹt/ US
  • /ət/ UK
  • /əɹt/ US

Where it comes from

From Middle English art, from Old English eart, second-person singular present indicative of wesan. Further etymology uncertain, see are. Cognate with Faroese ert and Icelandic ert.

verb

  1. archaic, indicative, present, second person, singular second-person singular simple present indicative of be: [you] arebe How great thou art!

Art³

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

Clipping.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.

ART⁴

noun ARTs

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time.Achilles tendon reflex time
  2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of assisted reproductive technology.assisted reproductive technology
  3. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Androgen Replacement Therapy.Androgen Replacement Therapy
  4. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Active Release Technique.Active Release Technique
  5. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Adaptive resonance theory.Adaptive resonance theory
  6. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Algebraic Reconstruction Technique.Algebraic Reconstruction Technique
  7. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Alternative Risk Transfer.Alternative Risk Transfer
  8. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of acoustic resonance technology.acoustic resonance technology
  9. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of antiretroviral therapy.antiretroviral therapy

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