Arts and crafts

Definition

art 1 /ɑ:t/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ပန္းခ်ီ၊ ပန္းပုစသည့္ အႏုပညာ။ the art of the Renaissance ❍ modern art ❍ children's art ❍ an art critic/ historian/ lover ❍ the art world. (ခ) [U] အႏုပညာ စြမ္းရည္၊ ပါရမီ။ Her performance displayed great art. ❍ This tapestry is a work of art. (ဂ) [U] အႏုပညာ လက္ရာ။ The walls were hung with surrealist art. ❍ an art exhibition/ gallery. (ဃ) [C] အႏုပညာပံုသဏၭာန္ တစ္မ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး။ the art of dance/ metalwork. See also POP ART ၂။ the arts [pl] ကဗ်ာ၊ ဂီတ၊ အက စသည့္ ဖန္တီးမႈ အႏုပညာ။ sponsorship of the arts ❍ an appreciation of the arts ❍ an arts centre. Compare FINE ART. ၃။ arts [pl] ဝိဇၨာပညာ။ an arts degree with honours in sociology. Compare HUMANITIES, SCIENCE ၄။ [C, U] (အတတ္) ပညာ။ the art of appearing confident at interviews ❍ Threading a needle is an art in itself. ❍ The art of letter-writing is fast disappearing. ❏ art form n အႏုပညာဖန္တီးမႈ။ အႏုပညာရပ္။ Photography is now accepted as an art form. ❏ arts and crafts n [pl] လက္မႈအႏုပညာ။ (ရက္ကန္း ရက္ျခင္း၊ အိုးလုပ္ျခင္း စသည္)။ an arts and crafts display. art 2 /ɑ:t/ v ( arch ) (thou ႏွင့္ တြဲသံုးေသာ are ၏ ေရွးသံုးပံုစံ)။ ‘O rose, thou art sick. ’

Examples

1. Do you like modern art?
2. The art of ancient Mexico
3. Are these films art or entertainment?
4. She devotes her spare time to her art.
5. He studied Art and Design at university.
6. The Faculty of Arts
7. An arts graduate/degree/subject
8. The decorative/graphic arts
9. Bringing out the best in your students is an art.
10. [art of doing something] : I have now mastered the art of letter-writing.
11. [an art to doing something] : There’s an art to parking this truck.
12. [have/get something down to a fine art] : Fred’s got car-buying down to a fine art.