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As a noun art

is .

art

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) (from (etyl) (m)).

Noun

(Art) (Art) (Art)
  • (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.
  • (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
  • (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
  • (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
  • (uncountable) Artwork.
  • (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
  • (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=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 scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
  • * 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, page 217:
  • 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 .
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
    Synonyms
    * (Human effort) craft
    Antonyms
    * (Human effort) mundacity, nature, subsistence
    Quotations
    * 2005', "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize '''art by minimizing the terror." -July ''Harper's , Lynn Freed * 2009 , "Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist." - Extended Essay on Visual Art, Alexander Brouwer
    Derived terms
    * abstract art * art class * art collection * art dealer * Art Deco * artefact, artifact * art exhibition * art film * art for art's sake * art form * artful * art gallery * art historian * art history * art house * artifice * artificial * art imitates life * artisan * artist * artiste * artistic * art journal * artless * art movie * art music * art nouveau * art object * art paper * art rock * art rooom * art school * arts degree * arts and crafts * art student * artsy * artsy-craftsy * art therapy * art union * artwork * artworker * arty * ASCII art * arty-farty * Bachelor of Arts * black art, black arts * body art * cave art * clip art * concept art * down to a fine art * fine arts * folk art * graphic art * high art * installation art * junk art * kinetic art * liberal arts * life imitates art * line art * martial art * Master of Arts * minimal art * modern art * * objet d'art * op art * optical art * outsider art * performance art * person of ordinary skill in the art * pixel art * plastic art * pop art * primitive art * prior art * process art * sand art * sequential art * seventh art * state-of-the-art * street art * term of art * traditional art * vernacular art * visual art * work of art * (art)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (be)
  • How great thou art !

    See also

    * am * are * be * being * been * beest * was * wast * were * wert

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    crap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
  • (slang) Something of poor quality.
  • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  • (slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
  • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
  • (slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
  • (slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
  • ''I have to take a crap
  • (slang) Useless object or entity.
  • What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap

    Verb

    (crapp)
  • (vulgar, slang) To defecate.
  • Derived terms
    * crap on - (UK) To talk at length in a foolish or boring way. * To crap something out: to damage or destroy something.

    Adjective

    (crapper)
  • (chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
  • I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
    Alternative forms
    * crappy (chiefly, North America)
    Synonyms
    * lousy * shit * shite * bollocks * piss * fuck * Deuce

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
  • Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
    Crap! I lost the game.
    What the crap ?!
    Aw, crap , I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

    Etymology 2

    From "crab's eyes"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gambling) A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in craps.
  • Derived terms
    * crap out * crapola * crapulation

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