art

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–noun

the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.

the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.

any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

the craft or trade using these principles or methods.

skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

10.

a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

11.

arts,

(used with a singular verb

) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.

(used with a plural verb

) liberal arts.

12.

skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.

13.

trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.

14.

studied action; artificiality in behavior.

15.

an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.

16.

Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.

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Origin:
1175–1225; ME < OF, acc. of ars < L ars (nom.), artem (acc.)

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–verbArchaic.

2nd pers. sing. pres. indic. of be.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE eart, equiv. to ear- (see are¹) + -t ending of 2nd pers. sing.

–noun

a male given name, form of Arthur.

Linguistics.

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.

var. of -ard: braggart.

pluralarts. for 1.

article; articles.

artificial.

artillery.

artist.

–verb (used without object)

to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question.

to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week.

to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table.

to continue or remain as before: Let things be.

to belong; attend; befall: May good fortune be with you.

(used as a copula to connect the subject with its predicate adjective, or predicate nominative, in order to describe, identify, or amplify the subject): Martha is tall. John is president. This is she.

(used as a copula to introduce or form interrogative or imperative sentences): Is that right? Be quiet! Don't be facetious.

–auxiliary verb

(used with the present participle of another verb to form the progressive tense): I am waiting.

(used with the present participle or infinitive of the principal verb to indicate future action): She is visiting there next week. He is to see me today.

10.

(used with the past participle of another verb to form the passive voice): The date was fixed. It must be done.

11.

(used in archaic or literary constructions with some intransitive verbs to form the perfect tense): He is come. Agamemnon to the wars is gone.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME been, OE bēon (bēo- (akin to OFris, OHG bim, G bin, OS bium, biom (I) am, OE, OHG, OS būan, ON būa reside, L fuī (I) have been, Gk phy- grow, become, OIr boí (he) was, Skt bhávati (he) becomes, is, Lith búti to be, OCS byti, Pers būd was)) + -n inf. suffix. See am, is, are¹, was, were

—Can be confused: be, bee.

—Usage note
See me.

a suffix forming nouns that denote persons who regularly engage in an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem; now usually pejorative: coward; dullard; drunkard; wizard.

Also, -art.

Origin:
ME < OF, prob. extracted from Frankish compound personal names; cf. OHG Adalhart (F Alard), Bernhart (F Bernard), with 2d element -hart lit., strong, hardy, hard (c. OE -heard in names), often merely as intensifier of quality denoted in 1st element.

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art¹ (ɑːt)

—n
1.	a. the creation of works of beauty or other special significance
	b. (as modifier): an art movement
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
4.	a. the products of man's creative activities; works of art collectively, esp of the visual arts, sometimes also music, drama, dance, and literature
	b. arts See also fine art (as modifier): an art gallery
5.	excellence or aesthetic merit of conception or execution as exemplified by such works
6.	any branch of the visual arts, esp painting
7.	(modifier) intended to be artistic or decorative: art needlework
8.	a. any field using the techniques of art to display artistic qualities: advertising art
	b. (as modifier): an art film
9.	journalism photographs or other illustrations in a newspaper, etc
10.	method, facility, or knack: the art of threading a needle; the art of writing letters
11.	the system of rules or principles governing a particular human activity: the art of government
12.	artfulness; cunning
13.	get something down to a fine art to become highly proficient at something through practice

[C13: from Old French, from Latin ars craftsmanship]

art² (ɑːt)

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

[Old English eart, part of bēon to be]

ART

—*abbreviation for*
	assisted reproductive technology

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Word Origin & History

O.E. beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become," from P.Gmc. *beo-, *beu-. This "b-root" is from PIE base *bheu-, *bhu- "grow, come into being, become," and in addition to the words in English it yielded German present first and second person sing. (bin, bist, from O.H.G. bim "I am," bist "thou art"), L. perf. tenses of esse (fui "I was," etc.), O.C.S. byti "be," Gk. phu- "become," O.Ir. bi'u "I am," Lith. bu'ti "to be," Rus. byt' "to be," etc. It also is behind Skt. bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world."

The modern verb in its entirety represents the merger of two once-distinct verbs, the "b-root" represented by be and the am/was verb, which was itself a conglomerate. Roger Lass ("Old English") describes the verb as "a collection of semantically related paradigm fragments," while Weekley calls it "an accidental conglomeration from the different Old English dial[ect]s." It is the most irregular verb in Mod.E. and the most common. Collective in all Germanic languages, it has eight different forms in Modern English:

BE (infinitive, subjunctive, imperative)
AM (present 1st person singular)
ARE (present 2nd person singular and all plural)
IS (present 3rd person singular)
WAS (past 1st and 3rd persons singular)
WERE (past 2nd person singular, all plural; subjunctive)
BEING (progressive & present participle; gerund)
BEEN (perfect participle).

The paradigm in O.E. was:

	SING.	PL.
1st pres.	ic eom ic beo	we sind(on) we beoð
2nd pres.	þu eart þu bist	ge sind(on) ge beoð
3rd pres.	he is he bið	hie sind(on) hie beoð
1st pret.	ic wæs	we wæron
2nd pret.	þu wære	ge waeron
3rd pret.	heo wæs	hie wæron
1st pret. subj.	ic wære	we wæren
2nd pret. subj.	þu wære	ge wæren
3rd pret. subj.	Egcferð wære	hie wæren

The "b-root" had no past tense in O.E., but often served as future tense of am/was. In 13c. it took the place of the infinitive, participle and imperative forms of am/was. Later its plural forms (we beth, ye ben, they be) became standard in M.E. and it made inroads into the singular (I be, thou beest, he beth), but forms of are claimed this turf in the 1500s and replaced be in the plural. For the origin and evolution of the am/was branches of this tangle, see am and was.

"That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all." ["Macbeth" I.vii.5]

art

early 13c., "skill as a result of learning or practice," from O.Fr. art, from L. artem (nom. ars) "art, skill, craft," from PIE *ar-ti- (cf. Skt. rtih "manner, mode;" Gk. arti "just," artios "complete;" Armenian arnam "make;" Ger. art "manner, mode"), from base *ar- "fit together, join" (see arm (1)). In M.E. usually with sense of "skill in scholarship and learning" (c.1300), especially in the seven sciences, or liberal arts. This sense remains in Bachelor of Arts, etc. Meaning "human workmanship" (as opposed to nature) is from late 14c. Sense of "cunning and trickery" first attested c.1600. Meaning "skill in creative arts" is first recorded 1620; esp. of painting, sculpture, etc., from 1660s. Broader sense of the word remains in artless (1580s). As an adj. meaning "produced with conscious artistry (as opposed to popular or folk) it is attested from 1890, possibly from infl. of Ger. kunstlied "art song" (cf. art film, 1960; art rock, c.1970). Fine arts, "those which appeal to the mind and the imagination" first recorded 1767. Expression art for art's sake (1836) translates Fr. l'art pour l'art. First record of art critic is from 1865. Arts and crafts "decorative design and handcraft" first attested in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, founded in London, 1888.

"Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truths, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. The revolt of individualism came because the tradition had become degraded, or rather because a spurious copy had been accepted in its stead." [William Butler Yeats]

art

second person present indicative of be; see be.

-ard

also -art, from O.Fr. -ard, -art, from Ger. -hard, -hart "hardy," often forming the second element in personal names, used as an intensifier, but in M.H.G. and Du. used as a pejorative element in common nouns, and thus passing into M.E. in bastard, coward, etc. It thus became a living element in English, e.g. buzzard, drunkard.

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Medical Dictionary

ART definition

Function: abbreviation
accredited record technician

BE definition

Function: abbreviation
1 barium enema
2 below elbow
3 board-eligible

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Be
The symbol for the element beryllium.

Science Dictionary

beryllium (bə-rĭl'ē-əm) Pronunciation Key
Symbol Be
A hard, lightweight, steel-gray metallic element of the alkaline-earth group, found in various minerals, especially beryl. It has a high melting point and is corrosion-resistant. Beryllium is used to make sturdy, lightweight alloys and aerospace structural materials. It is also used as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors. Atomic number 4; atomic weight 9.0122; melting point 1,278°C; boiling point 2,970°C; specific gravity 1.848; valence 2. See Periodic Table.

Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: art
Function: abbreviation
article

Computing Dictionary

ART definition

language
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].
(1996-01-15)

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