Art
| Noun | 1. |  art - the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"Synonyms: fine art |
| 2. |  art - 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"Synonyms: artistic creation, artistic production | |
| 3. | art - a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" | |
| 4. |  art - photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book" |
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.
| (language) | 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]. |