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art | paint |

As nouns the difference between art and paint

is that art is while paint is a paint horse.

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 .
  • *
  • , 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

    Statistics

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    paint

    English

    (wikipedia paint)

    Noun

  • A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
  • (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  • * 2007 , Jesse Guthrie, Catherine's Addiction (page 116)
  • René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.
  • (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with ''the''.
  • The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint .
  • (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
  • I am running low on paint for my marker.
  • (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
  • (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  • * 1993 , Emil Ihrig, CorelDRAW! 4 made easy
  • It combines traditional paint capabilities with photograph enhancement features.
  • * 1998 , Kit Laybourne, The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmaking
  • Computer paint software operates similarly but adds features that are delightfully familiar and useful to artists trained in traditional graphics materials.
  • * 2001 , Maureen Sprankle, Problem Solving for Information Processing
  • If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape.

    Derived terms

    * face paint * finger paint * like watching paint dry * Paint / Paint Horse * paintbrush * paint job * war paint

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply paint to.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces
  • To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  • To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • not painted with the crimson spots of blood
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.
  • To create (an image) with paints.
  • to paint a portrait or a landscape
  • To practise the art of painting pictures.
  • I've been painting since I was a young child.
  • (computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  • * 1991 , Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows
  • Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted .
  • (figuratively) To depict or portray.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Disloyal? / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
  • To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Let her paint an inch thick.
  • (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
  • Derived terms

    * painted lady * painted trillium * painted vulture * painter * painting * paint oneself into a corner * paint out * paint the town red * paint with a broad brush * repaint

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