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 s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.
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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"
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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 s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.creating a picture with paints; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the arts of decorative design and handicraft; "they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass pr…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.creating figures or designs in three dimensions
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the art of making and decorating pottery
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned drawing from his father"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned drawing from his father"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned drawing from his father"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.carving or engraving (especially on stones)
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.the art of making perfumes
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.creating figures or designs in three dimensions
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history, Visual art.making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
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Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a dem…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.in need of repairs; in need of repair
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.(computing) a search procedure using techniques modelled on the biological theory of natural selection.; "Also, in searching a large s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: creation, beautiful, significant, things, need.
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