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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.uncountable
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
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The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.uncountable
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Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.countable
- She's mastered the art of programming.
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The study and the product of these processes.uncountable
- He's at university to study art.
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Aesthetic value.uncountable
- Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
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Artwork.uncountable
- Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
- art collection
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A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.countable
- I'm a great supporter of the arts.
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(often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.countable
- 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 econ
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Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.countable
- The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
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Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.dateduncountable
- 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.
- [...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.
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