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(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
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Fine arts, related disciplines in literature, the visual and performing arts.
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A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
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(art) Any industrial structure whose architecture is thought to have unintended artistic qualities.
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The art of using of design and decoration to make everyday usable items aesthetically pleasing.
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The theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items.
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(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.
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Any activity or piece of work that has artistic merit
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The study of the history of the visual arts.
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(art) Any of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an -ism suffix.
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A school that specializes in the study of art.
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Alternative spelling of artspeak [(often derogatory) The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when seen as complicated or pretentious.]
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The use of creative activities related to the visual arts to improve physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
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Alternative spelling of artworld [A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.]
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With reference to artefacts
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(informal, art) People who are considered the elite in the world of art.
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Alternative spelling of art form [Any activity or piece of work that has artistic merit]
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The quality or condition of being an art.
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(informal) Abbreviation of articulated bus [A bus fitted with a joint, which is covered by an accordion-shaped weatherproofing, to increase its manoeuvrability.]
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An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
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Significant artistic skill.
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A piece of art; artwork.
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The fine arts, performing arts, and liberal arts, considered together.
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a degree in one or more of the fine arts
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Characterised by art, the arts, or artistry
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A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art
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A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.
adj
Inclined towards the arts.
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Alternative spelling of beaux-arts [The fine arts, especially in reference to the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.]
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The fine arts, especially in reference to the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Alternative form of bibliotheque [(obsolete) A collection of books or treatises.]
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The entirety of the creative or academic output produced by a particular individual or unit.
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A public event at which books are sold, often featuring appearances by authors.
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Alternative form of booklore [Synonym of book-learning]
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Theoretical or academic knowledge acquired by reading books and/or through formal education, as opposed to practical or empirical knowledge of real life and the real world, gained through experience, or native as street smarts, common sense, or intuition.
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To leave a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do likewise.
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a repository for books, library; store of books
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The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.
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Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
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the California Institute of the Arts, a private arts university located in Santa Clarita, California.
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An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence.
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A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
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(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
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Any type of art that attracts groups of people to view or participate. Examples include pavement drawings, sand sculpting, clowns, and mime performances.
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A collection of 100 short stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.
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A little essay; essayette.
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The state or condition of being fit for film.
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A film adaptation of a work.
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An exact skill that needs practice to perfect.
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Art consisting of found objects.
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A natural object, or one manufactured for some other purpose, considered as a work of art.
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A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
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Alternative letter-case form of Gesamtkunstwerk [Total artwork; an artistic creation such as an operatic performance that encompasses music, theatre and the visual arts.]
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A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
adj
Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.
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Synonym of Hollywood accounting
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An outcome considered to be typical of certain movies produced in Hollywood, California, in which all desirable results are achieved, with protagonists being rewarded, antagonists being punished or destroyed, and positive sentiments (love, happiness, peace) prevailing over negative.
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The use, misuse, abuse and general ignorance of the principles of science within the Hollywood film industry, and by extension, more widely in creative media.
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The automation of housework and household management.
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The practical arts, such as engineering, metalworking or carpentry.
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A genre of art which incorporates any media, including the physical features of the site, to create a conceptual experience in a particular environment.
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(art) The position that anything is art as long as somebody calls it art.
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An artistic movement associated with the slogan "art for art's sake".
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A library from which books are lent out.
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An early form of autograph book that originated in Germany.
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An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
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Alternative spelling of library catalog [A register of all bibliographic items found in a particular library or group of libraries, such as those belonging to a university system spread out over several geographic locations.]
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(art) A teaching session in which art students practice drawing or painting the human figure using a live (often naked) model
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A school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a list.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a magazine or its typical contents.
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A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.
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A group of people with a common point of view; a social class or group.
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A work of art with some artistic merit.
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(uncountable, collective) The complete body of an artist's work.
v
Pronunciation spelling of parting.
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(art) A form of art in which the artist creates a live performance, often using a variety of media.
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(art) The arts involving performance, such as dance, theatre, music, etc.
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that teaches applied arts, sciences, technology, engineering and other academic subjects
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(art) A style of art, especially sculpture, which emphasises the process by which it was made, rather than its form.
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(film, theater) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production
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Any artwork planned and executed with the intention of being presented openly to the public, usually outside and accessible to all.
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(art) The process of determining whether artwork is real or fake, and, if fake, determining when and by whom it was created.
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A library that exclusively collects reference books (which may not be lent out to the general public).
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An art movement, a community of artists.
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Resembling or characteristic of a script.
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(art) A style of art in which uniform elements or objects are assembled upon strict modular principles.
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(derogatory) A branch of the modern art movement, especially in the UK, as epitomised by art chosen for the Tate and the Turner Prize.
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An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
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(with the definite article) The Tate, a series of art galleries.
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(art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
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(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
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(art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
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(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.
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Alternative form of vertu. [(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.]
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Alternative form of vertu. [(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.]
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An art form intended to be appreciated or perceived primarily by sight, such as painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.
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The Vitruvian school of architecture.
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An exhibition of waxwork figures; a wax museum.
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A product of the fine arts; a painting, sculpture, etc.
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