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As nouns the difference between art and party

is that art is 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 while party is a person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

As verbs the difference between art and party

is that art is archaic second-person singular of be while party is to celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

As a proper noun Art

is a diminutive of the male given name Arthur.

As an adjective party is

divided; in part.

As an adverb party is

partly.

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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    party

    English

    (wikipedia party)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) partie, (etyl) partie, from ; see part.

    Noun

    (parties)
  • (lb) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
  • :
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony.
  • (lb) A person.
  • # A person; an individual.
  • #:
  • #With to : an accessory, someone who takes part.
  • #:
  • A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
  • *1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Ch.6:
  • *:A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see that all members of the tribe were accounted for.
  • A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
  • :
  • *
  • *:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
  • (lb) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
  • :
  • (lb) A social gathering.
  • #A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
  • #:
  • #A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}
  • #A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
  • #:
  • Participants.
  • #(lb) Active player characters organized into a single group.
  • #(lb) Group of characters controlled by the player.
  • (lb) A part or division.
  • *, Bk.II, Ch.xv:
  • *:And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.
  • Synonyms
    * (social gathering) * bash * do * rave * See also
    Derived terms
    * after-party/afterparty * agrarian party * beach party * bachelor party * bachelorette party * block party * boarding party * bucks' party * charter party * cocktail party * coming-out party * concert party * Conservative party * costume party * cross-party * dinner party * fatigue party * green party * hen party * house party * Independence Party * keg party * LAN party * landing party * lawn party * life of the party * major party * minor party * mushroom party * necktie party * one-party * partay * party and party costs * party animal * party blower * party boss * party boy * party bus * party-coated * party costs * party dress * party crasher * party favor * party game * party girl * party jury * party line * party of the fist part * party of the second part * party pie * party politics * party pooper * party puffer * party school * party spirit * party state * party strengths (see strength) * party to the action * party tray * party trick * party wall * party whip * partyer * partygoer * partyism * political party * pool party * prevailing party * rescue party * sausage party * search party * slumber party * splinter party * stag party * surprise party * tailgate party * tea party * throw a party * third party * three-party * toga party * Tupperware party * two-party * war party * wedding party

    Verb

  • To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
  • We partied until the early hours.
  • (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
  • * 2004 , Daniel Nicholas Shields, Firewoman
  • “Miss, do you party ?” the boy asked. “What?” Jennifer asked back. “Do you smoke? I'll get you some cheap. One American dollar equals forty Jamaican dollars. I'll get you as much of the stuff as you need.”
  • (gaming, online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
  • If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
    Derived terms
    * party down * party on

    Statistics

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
  • (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
  • an escutcheon party per pale
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Partly.
  • (Chaucer)

    Anagrams

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