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单词 fine art
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art1 /ärt/

noun
  1. Practical skill, or its application, guided by principles
  2. Human skill and agency, opp to nature
  3. Application of skill to production of beauty (esp visible beauty) and works of creative imagination, as in the fine arts
  4. (in general use) the visual arts, drawing and painting, and usu sculpture
  5. A branch of learning, esp one of the liberal arts (see trivium under trivia, quadrivium under quadri-), as in faculty of arts, master of arts
  6. Skill or knowledge in a particular department
  7. A skilled profession or trade, craft, or branch of activity
  8. Magic or occult knowledge or influence
  9. A method or knack of doing a thing
  10. Cunning, artifice, crafty conduct
  11. A wile, trick
adjective
  1. Of, for or concerned with painting, sculpture, etc (as in art gallery, art historian)
  2. Intended to be decorative or artistic
  3. Produced with studied artistry, not arising spontaneously or by chance
  4. Following artistic aims at the expense of commercial considerations, as in art cinema
ORIGIN: L ars, artis

artˈful adjective

  1. Cunning
  2. Skilful, masterly
  3. Produced by art
  4. Dexterous, clever (archaic)

artˈfully adverb

artˈfulness noun

artˈiness noun

The quality or state of being arty

artˈless adjective

  1. Simple
  2. Guileless, unaffected
  3. Inartistic (rare)

artˈlessly adverb

artˈlessness noun

artˈy (informal) or less commonly artˈsy adjective

Artistic, or affectedly aspiring to be

noun (informal)

An arty person

art autre /är-tō-tr’/ noun

A post-World War II movement in painting, including tachisme

art brut noun

The primitive (literally, raw), unrefined or naïve art of non-professional or untrained artists (eg children, mental patients, prisoners, etc)

art deco /ärt dekˈō/ noun

The style of decorative art characteristic of the 1920s and 1930s, developing the curvilinearity of art nouveau into more streamlined geometrical forms

art form noun

  1. A set form or arrangement in poetry or music
  2. An accepted medium of artistic expression

artˈhouse noun

A cinema that shows films regarded as artistic as distinct from popular, incl cult and foreign, subtitled films (also adjective)

art nouveau /är noo-vōˈ/ noun

A decorative form of art (c.1890–1910) in which curvilinear forms are important and fundamentally unrelated images are often combined in a single design

art paper noun

A type of paper for illustrations, coated with a composition containing china clay

arts centre noun

A building for practising, performing or exhibiting various arts and art forms

artsˈman noun

  1. A craftsman (obsolete)
  2. A scholar (obsolete)

artˈ-song noun

A song whose words and music are the product of conscious art, the music reflecting every turn of meaning (distinguished from a folk song)

art therapy noun

Art used as a means of communication, or a creative activity, to assist personal development, diagnosis and rehabilitation

art union noun (Aust and NZ)

A lottery

artˈwork noun

  1. The illustrations and other decorative material in a publication
  2. Production of or work in creating, artistic objects
  3. Work(s) of art

arty-craftˈy adjective

  1. To do with, or esp involved in, arts and crafts
  2. Self-consciously artistic

arty-fartˈy or artsy-fartsˈy adjective (derogatory, informal)

Arty, arty-crafty

art and part (orig law, etc)

Concerned in either by art in contriving or by part in actual execution, now loosely used in the sense of participating, sharing

fine art

  1. The aesthetically significant forms of art (now usu defined as architecture, painting, sculpture and some graphic arts) as distinct from applied and decorative art
  2. Loosely, (a college course combining) art history and practical art tuition
  3. Sometimes, the fine arts (see below)
  4. An operation or practice requiring special skill or craftsmanship (informal)

get something down to a fine art

To become very skilled at something through practice

soft art (and soft sculpture)

Works of art (and sculpture) constructed from textiles or other soft materials

term of art

A technical word

the fine arts

Painting, poetry, music, etc

fine1 /fīn/

adjective
  1. Excellent (often ironic)
  2. Beautiful or handsome
  3. Not coarse or heavy
  4. Consisting of small particles
  5. Subtle
  6. Slender
  7. Sharp
  8. Keen
  9. Exquisite
  10. Nice
  11. Delicate
  12. Sensitive
  13. Over-refined
  14. Over-elaborate (obsolete)
  15. Pretentious (obsolete)
  16. Showy
  17. Splendid
  18. Striking or remarkable
  19. Egregious, distinguished (archaic)
  20. Pure
  21. Refined
  22. Containing so many parts of pure metal out of twenty-four (as 22 carats, or ounces, fine, 22/24 gold or silver), or out of a thousand
transitive verb
  1. To make fine
  2. To refine
  3. To purify
  4. To change by imperceptible degrees (esp with away or down)
adjective and adverb
  1. At a more acute angle with the line of flight of the ball (eg fine leg)
  2. (of a snooker, etc stroke) making very slight contact
adverb
  1. Well or well enough (informal)
  2. Narrowly
  3. With little to spare
  4. Into fine pieces
ORIGIN: Fr fin, prob a back-formation from L fīnītus finished, pap of fīnīre to finish, from fīnis an end

fineˈish (also fīnˈish) adjective

Somewhat fine

fineˈly adverb

fineˈness noun

  1. State, fact or degree of being fine
  2. State of subdivision
  3. (of gold or silver) number of parts in a thousand

finˈer noun

A refiner

finˈery noun

  1. Splendour
  2. Showy adornments
  3. A place where anything is fined or refined
  4. A furnace for making iron malleable

fines plural noun

Material (ore, coal, etc) in a fine state of division, separated out by screening

fīnˈing noun

  1. The process of refining or purifying
  2. (often in pl) a clarifying agent (wine-making)

fine art or fine arts see under art1

fine chemicals plural noun

Chemicals produced in small quantities usu of high purity, opp to heavy chemicals

fineˈ-draw transitive verb

  1. To draw or sew up so finely that no seam can be seen
  2. To draw out finely or too finely

fineˈ-drawn adjective

fine gentleman or fine lady noun

An idle person, usu ostentatiously fashionable, sometimes refined

fine leg noun (cricket)

A fielder, or a fielding position, on the legside boundary at a more acute angle to the batsman than long leg

fine metal noun

Comparatively pure cuprous sulphide obtained from coarse metal

fine print same as small print (see under small).

fineˈ-spoken adjective

Using fine phrases

fineˈspun adjective

  1. Finely spun out
  2. Over-subtle

fine-tooth comb , fine-toothed comb or fine comb noun

A comb with slender teeth set close together

fine-tuneˈ transitive verb

To make delicate adjustments to

fine-tunˈing noun

fine writing noun

Literary matter or style which is pretentiously ornate

fīnˈing-pot noun

A vessel used in refining

cut it fine

To do something with little time or space to spare

go over or through with a fine-tooth (or fine-toothed) comb

To investigate very thoroughly
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