arts

n. humanities, studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (as distinguished from Science)

n. production and expression of esthetics, creation and expression of representations of beauty (as in painting, music, theater, drawing, sculpting, etc.)

ARTS may refer to one of the following Adaptive Ray Tracing SystemAdaptive Restraint Technology System. Alpha Repertory Television Service, one of the predecessors that formed A&E Network televisionaRts, a component of the KDE desktop environmentArts Recognition and Talent Search programAssociation for Retail Technology Standards programPasadena Area Transit ServiceARTS-Dance
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aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an application that simulates an analog synthesizer under KDE. A key component of aRts is the sound server which mixes several sound streams in realtime. The sound server called aRtsd (d for Daemon) is also utilized as the standard sound server for KDE. The sound server is not dependent on KDE and can be used in other projects. It is a direct competitor to JACK Audio Connection Kit, another real-time sound server, and an indirect competitor to the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). It is now common to use ALSA's software mixing instead of aRtsd.
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The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. In modern usage, it is a term broader than "art", which usually means the visual arts (comprising both fine art, decorative art, and crafts). The arts encompasses visual arts, performing arts, language arts, culinary arts, and physical arts. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree.
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Noun
1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
(synonym) humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts
(hypernym) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
(hyponym) neoclassicism

Noun
1. the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
(synonym) fine art
(hypernym) creation
(hyponym) artificial flower
(classification) artistic creation, artistic production
2. 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"
(synonym) artistic creation, artistic production
(hypernym) creation, creative activity
(hyponym) arts and crafts
(class) popular, pop
3. a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
(synonym) artistry, prowess
(hypernym) superior skill
(hyponym) aviation, airmanship
4. photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"
(synonym) artwork, graphics, nontextual matter
(hypernym) visual communication
(hyponym) illustration
(part-holonym) publication

n. art, craft; artifice, wry

n. physician, doctor, therapist