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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -ard \-ard\, -art \-art\
     The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard,
     drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this
     ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as
     English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a
     high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root;


     as, braggart, sluggard.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Art \Art\ ([aum]rt).
     The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense,
     of the substantive verb {Be}; but formed after the analogy of
     the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt,
     orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. {Be}.
     Now used only in solemn or poetical style.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Art \Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in
     joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat,
     article.]
     1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end;
        the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses
        of life; the application of knowledge or power to
        practical purposes.
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              Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope.
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     2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of
        certain actions; a system of principles and rules for
        attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special
        work; -- often contradistinguished from science or
        speculative principles; as, the art of building or
        engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.
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              Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is
              knowledge made efficient by skill.    --J. F.
                                                    Genung.
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     3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in
        effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or
        business requiring such knowledge or skill.
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              The fishermen can't employ their art with so much
              success in so troubled a sea.         --Addison.
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     4. The application of skill to the production of the
        beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in
        which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture;
        one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.
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     5. pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the
        academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
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              In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in
              colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a
              foundation.                           --Goldsmith.
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     6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.
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              So vast is art, so narrow human wit.  --Pope.
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     7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain
        actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation;
        knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to
        advantage.
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     8. Skillful plan; device.
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              They employed every art to soothe . . . the
              discontented warriors.                --Macaulay.
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     9. Cunning; artifice; craft.
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              Madam, I swear I use no art at all.   --Shak.
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              Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors
              in strength.                          --Crabb.
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     10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and
        abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime,
        whether by advice or by assistance in the execution;
        complicity.
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     Note: The arts are divided into various classes.
  
     {The useful arts},
  
     {The mechanical arts}, or
  
     {The industrial arts} are those in which the hands and body
        are more concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and
        utensils. These are called trades.
  
     {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with
        imagination and taste, and are applied to the production
        of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music,
        painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the
        term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and
        architecture.
  
     {The liberal arts} (artes liberales, the higher arts, which,
        among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue)
        were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of
        learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic,
        geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the
        liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history,
        etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate
        education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor
        of arts.
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              In America, literature and the elegant arts must
              grow up side by side with the coarser plants of
              daily necessity.                      --Irving.
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     Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill;
          dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession;
          business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity.
          See {Science}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  art
       n 1: the products of human creativity; works of art collectively;
            "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" [syn: {fine
            art}]
       2: the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does
          not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any
          good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of
          wasting space beautifully" [syn: {artistic creation}, {artistic
          production}]
       3: a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice
          and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an
          art" [syn: {artistry}, {prowess}]
       4: photographs or other visual representations in a printed
          publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the
          artwork in the book" [syn: {artwork}, {graphics}, {nontextual
          matter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  313 Moby Thesaurus words for "art":
     American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese,
     British, Cobra, Dadaism, Dutch, Fauvism, Flemish, Fontainebleau,
     French, Gothicism, Italian, Italian hand, Mannerist, Milanese,
     Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York, Paduan, Parisian, Phases,
     Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Roman, Scottish,
     Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian,
     Washington, abstract expressionism, abstractionism,
     academic discipline, academic specialty, action painting,
     acuteness, address, adroitness, alphabet, applied science, area,
     arena, art nouveau, art schools, artful dodge, artfulness,
     artifice, artistic skill, artistry, arty-craftiness, astuteness,
     baroque, blind, blueprint, business, cageyness, callidity, calling,
     canniness, capability, career, career building, careerism,
     charactering, characterization, chart, chicanery, choreography,
     classicalism, classicism, cleverness, cloisonnism, competence,
     conceptual art, concern, conspiracy, constructivism, contrivance,
     conventional representation, conventionalism, coup, craft,
     craftiness, cubism, cunning, cunningness, cute trick,
     dance notation, deceit, delineation, demonstration,
     department of knowledge, depiction, depictment, design, device,
     dexterity, diagram, discipline, dodge, domain, drama, drawing,
     earth art, eclectic, elementarism, exemplification, existentialism,
     expedient, expertise, expressionism, fakement, feel, feint, fetch,
     field, field of inquiry, field of study, figuration,
     fine Italian hand, finesse, flair, foxiness, free abstraction,
     futurism, gambit, game, gamesmanship, gimmick, grift, groups,
     guile, hallucinatory painting, handicraft, handiness, hang,
     hieroglyphic, iconography, idealism, ideogram, illustration,
     imagery, imaging, impressionism, ingeniousness, insidiousness,
     intimism, intrigue, intuitionism, inventiveness, jugglery,
     kinetic art, knack, knavery, know-how, letter, lifework, limning,
     line, line of business, line of work, linear chromatism,
     little game, logogram, logograph, maneuver, map, matter painting,
     mechanics, mechanism, method, metier, minimal art, mission,
     modernism, move, musical notation, mystery, mysticism,
     natural science, naturalism, neoclassicism, neoconcrete art,
     neoconstructivism, nonobjectivism, notation, nuagism, number,
     occupation, ology, one-upmanship, op art, photomontage, pictogram,
     picturization, plan, plein-air, plot, ploy, poetic realism,
     poetic tachism, pointillism, portraiture, portrayal,
     postexpressionism, practice, prefigurement, preimpressionism,
     presentment, primitivism, printing, profession, proficiency,
     projection, province, pure science, purism, pursuit,
     quietistic painting, racket, readiness, realism, realization,
     red herring, rendering, rendition, representation,
     representationalism, representationism, resourcefulness,
     romanticism, ruse, satanic cunning, savvy, schema, scheme, science,
     score, script, sharpness, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill,
     sleight, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, social science,
     sophistry, specialization, specialty, sphere, stealth,
     stealthiness, stratagem, strategy, study, subterfuge, subtilty,
     subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, suprematism, surrealism,
     syllabary, symbol, symbolism, synchromism, synthesism, tablature,
     tachism, tactic, talent, technic, technical know-how,
     technical knowledge, technical skill, technicology, technics,
     technique, technology, touch, trade, traditionalism, trick,
     trickery, trickiness, unism, virtu, vocation, vorticism, walk,
     walk of life, wariness, way, wile, wiles, wiliness, wily device,
     wit, work, writing
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ART
       Adaptive Resonance Theory (NN)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ART
       Advanced Resolution Technology (Minolta)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ART
       
           A {real-time} {functional language}.  It timestamps
          each data value when it was created.
       
          ["Applicative Real-Time Programming", M. Broy, PROC IFIP 1983,
          N-H].
       
          (1996-01-15)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ART. The power of doing. something not taught by nature or instinct.
  Johnson. Eunomus defines art to be a collection of certain rules for doing
  anything in a set form. Dial. 2, p. 74. The Dictionaire des Sciences
  Medicales, q.v., defines it in nearly the same terms.
       2. The arts are divided into mechanical and liberal arts. The
  mechanical arts are those which require more bodily than mental labor; they
  are usually called trades, and those who pursue them are called artisans or
  mechanics. The liberal are those which have for the sole or principal
  object, works of the mind, and those who are engaged in them are called
  artists. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 35.
       3. The act of Congress of July 4, 1836, s. 6, in describing the
  subjects of patents, uses the term art. The sense of this word in its usual
  acceptation is perhaps too comprehensive. The thing to be patented is not a
  mere elementary, principle, or intellectual discovery, but a principle put
  in practice, and applied to some art, machine, manufacture, or composition
  of matter. 4 Mason, 1.
       4. Copper-plate printing on the back of a bank note, is an art for
  which a patent may be granted. 4 Wash. C. C. R. 9.
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ART, n.  This word has no definition.  Its origin is related as
  follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.
  
      One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? --
      Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT,
      And said it was a god's name!  Straight arose
      Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows,
      And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns,
      And disputations dire that lamed their limbs)
      To serve his temple and maintain the fires,
      Expound the law, manipulate the wires.
      Amazed, the populace that rites attend,
      Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend,
      And, inly edified to learn that two
      Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do)
      Have sweeter values and a grace more fit
      Than Nature's hairs that never have been split,
      Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts,
      And sell their garments to support the priests.
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Art, TX
    Zip code(s): 76820

















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