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art 1
(ärt)n.
1.
a. The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words.
b. Such activity in the visual or plastic arts: takes classes in art at the college.
c. Products of this activity; imaginative works considered as a group: art on display in the lobby.
2. A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.
3. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
4. A skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation: the art of negotiation. See Synonyms at skill.
5.
a. arts Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.
b. Artful contrivance; cunning.
6. Printing Illustrative material, especially in contrast to text.
art 2
(ərt; ärt when stressed)v. Archaic
A second person singular present indicative of be.
ART
abbr.
antiretroviral therapy
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arts
(ɑːts)pl n
1. (Art Terms)
a. the arts imaginative, creative, and nonscientific branches of knowledge considered collectively, esp as studied academically
b. (as modifier): an arts degree.
2. (Art Terms) See fine art
3. cunning or crafty actions or plots; schemes
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| Noun | 1. |  arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" neoclassicism - revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation classicalism, classicism - a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" Romantic Movement, Romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" English - the discipline that studies the English language and literature history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture chronology - the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance Occidentalism - the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people Oriental Studies, Orientalism - the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people philosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics literary study - the humanistic study of literature library science - the study of the principles and practices of library administration philology, linguistics - the humanistic study of language and literature musicology - the scholarly and scientific study of music Sinology - the study of Chinese history and language and culture stemmatics, stemmatology - the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" trivium - (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence quadrivium - (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy |
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Translations
الآداب، المَواضيع الأدَبِيَّه
humanitní/společenské vědy
humanistiske fag
bölcsészet
hugvísindi
humanitné vedy
sosyal bilimler
arts
[ˈɑːrts] npl (= culture) the arts → les arts mpla patron of the arts → un mécène
arts
Arts [ˈɑːrts] npl (UNIVERSITY) → lettres fpl
You can study arts or science → Vous pouvez faire lettres ou science.art school n → école f des beaux-artsArts Council n organisme publique britannique chargé de la promotion des arts et de la culturearts degree Arts degree n → licence f ès lettresarts student Arts student n → étudiant(e) m/f en lettresart student n → étudiant(e) m/f des beaux-arts
You can study arts or science → Vous pouvez faire lettres ou science.art school n → école f des beaux-artsArts Council n organisme publique britannique chargé de la promotion des arts et de la culturearts degree Arts degree n → licence f ès lettresarts student Arts student n → étudiant(e) m/f en lettresart student n → étudiant(e) m/f des beaux-arts
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Arts
:Arts Council
n → Kulturausschuss m (der britischen Regierung)
arts degree
n → Abschlussexamen nt → der philosophischen Fakultät
Arts Faculty, Faculty of Arts
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
arts
[ɑːts] npl (Univ) → lettere fpl, studi mpl umanisticithe arts → le belle arti
arts and crafts → artigianato
Faculty of Arts → facoltà di Lettere
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
art
(aːt) noun1. painting and sculpture. I'm studying art at school; Do you like modern art?; (also adjective) an art gallery, an art college.
2. any of various creative forms of expression. painting, music, dancing, writing and the other arts.
3. an ability or skill; the (best) way of doing something. the art of conversation/war.
ˈartful adjective clever; having a lot of skill (usually in a bad sense). an artful thief.
ˈartfully adverbˈartfulness noun
arts noun plural
(often with capital) languages, literature, history, as opposed to scientific subjects.
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