Art vs It - What's the difference?
art | it |
(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.
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, title= (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, page 217:
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(be)
The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child of unknown gender.
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre , Chapter IV:
Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object. (known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive)
All or the end; something after which there is no more.
(obsolete, relative) That which; what.
* 1643 , (Thomas Browne), Religio Medici , II.2:
One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
* 1995 , Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
* 2000 , Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children (page 464)
(British, uncountable) The game of tag.
(colloquial) most fashionable.
* Vibe , Vol. 15, No. 9, p. 202, September 2007:
* David Germain,
(language) Italian.
Italy.
As a noun art
is .As a symbol it is
the iso 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for italy.art
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (from (etyl) (m)).Noun
(Art) (Art) (Art)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.}}
- 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 .
Synonyms
* (Human effort) craftAntonyms
* (Human effort) mundacity, nature, subsistenceQuotations
* 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 BrouwerDerived 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)- How great thou art !
See also
* am * are * be * being * been * beest * was * wast * were * wertStatistics
*it
English
(wikipedia it)Alternative forms
* (dialectal) (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m) ( > English dialectal . More at (l).Alternative forms
* itt (obsolete)Pronoun
- Put it over there.
- Take each day as it comes.
- She took the baby and held it in her arms.
- A child cannot quarrel with its' elders, as I had done; cannot give ' its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
- It' s me. John.
- It is nearly 10 o’clock.
- It ’s very cold today.
- It ’s lonely without you.
- It is easy to see how she would think that.
- I find it odd that you would say that.
- He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
- Are there more students in this class, or is this it ?
- That's it —I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
- In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "it")Derived terms
(Derived terms) * buy it * do it * for it * move it * that’s it * watch itSee also
* he * her * him * I * me * she * thee * them * they * thou * us * we * ye * youNoun
(en noun)- Too often, children become an "it " in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
- His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it : an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"
- In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it …
- When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its .
- Let's play it at breaktime.
Adjective
(-)- Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it " bag.
Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press, 2010:
- With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.