<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The quality, production, expression, or realm of things that conform to accepted aesthetic principles of beauty, show imagination and skill, and have more than ordinary meaning and importance: Art is a characteristic human activity.</li><li>The class of objects that meet or are subject to aesthetic criteria; objects considered beautiful, imaginative, skillful, and meaningful collectively, such as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: fine art, commercial art.</li><li>The visual or fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: She dabbled in art, including painting and sculpture.</li><li>The arts, the fine arts together with literature and the performing arts: I attended a high school that emphasized the arts, and I took every drama course I could.</li><li>A field, genre, or category of creative, imaginative, skilled activity that meets or is subject to aesthetic criteria: Poetry and dance are arts.</li><li>Any craft or field of creative activity applying aesthetic principles, skill, and technique: She does graphic art for an advertising company.</li><li>The humanities together with the natural and social sciences, as opposed to the professional and technical fields; liberal arts.</li><li>A branch of learning or university study, especially one of the fine arts or the humanities, such as music, philosophy, or literature: We attended a brilliant lecture on the role of the arts of philosophy and rhetoric in expanding knowledge.</li><li>The principles, techniques, or methods governing any craft, trade, or profession: the art of baking; the art of selling.</li><li>Skill in conducting any human activity: You are a master at the art of conversation!</li><li>The craft, trade, or profession using these principles, techniques, or methods.</li><li>Skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature: Do these shrubs in your garden owe their shape to art or to nature?</li><li>Illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?</li><li>Trickery or cunning, or an instance of this: Don’t be taken in by their devious art.</li><li>A positive or valuable attribute or quality: I was asked to list my strengths and weaknesses.</li><li>Something or someone that gives one strength or is a source of power or encouragement; sustenance: The Bible was her strength and joy.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>To improve the aesthetic quality of (something) through some form of art: This dress is so plain, it could use some arting up.</li></ul>