English Dictionary

art

/ɑːt/

noun

(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.

She enjoys visiting art galleries and museums.

意味（1）

(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.

There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.

意味（3）

(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

She's mastered the art of programming.

意味（4）

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

He's at university to study art.

意味（5）

(uncountable) Aesthetic value.

Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.

意味（6）

(uncountable) Artwork.

Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.

意味（7）

(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

I'm a great supporter of the arts.

意味（8）

(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

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.

意味（9）

(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

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.

意味（10）

(uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

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

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.