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arts

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, artsnoun

    studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

    "the college of arts and sciences"

Wikipedia

  1. ARts

    aRts (which stands for analog real time synthesizer) is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It was best known for previously being used in K Desktop Environment 2 and 3 to simulate an analog synthesizer. A key component of aRts was the sound server which mixes several sound streams in real time. The sound server, called artsd (d for daemon), was also utilized as the standard sound server for K Desktop Environment 2–3. However, the sound server was not dependent on K Desktop Environment and can be used in other projects. It was a direct competitor to PulseAudio, another sound server, and an indirect competitor to the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). It is now common to use PulseAudio instead of artsd. The aRts platform also includes aRts Builder — an application for building custom layouts and configurations for audio mixers, sequencers, synthesizers and other audio schema via a user-friendly graphical user interface. aRts is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

ChatGPT

  1. arts

    Arts refer to the expression of human creative skills and imagination, typically in a visual, auditory, or performance-based form, appreciated for their beauty, emotional power, or thought-provoking nature. This can encompass a wide range of activities such as painting, sculpture, theater, music, dance, literature, and more. In a broader sense, arts also involve disciplines like cinema, photography, architecture, fashion, among others. It is a way of exploring and understanding personal and shared human experiences.

Wikidata

  1. aRts

    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in K Desktop Environment 2 and 3 to simulate an analog synthesizer. A key component of aRts is the sound server which mixes several sound streams in realtime. The sound server, called artsd, is also utilized as the standard sound server for K Desktop Environment 2–3. However, the sound server is not dependent on K Desktop Environment 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. It is now common to use ALSA’s software mixing instead of artsd. The aRts platform also includes aRts Builder — an application for building custom layouts and configurations for audio mixers, sequencers, synthesizers and other audio schema via a user-friendly graphical user interface. aRts is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Editors Contribution

  1. arts

    A creative subject.

    Arts as a subject is beautiful and manifests in various ways.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 12, 2020  


  2. arts

    Plural form of the word art.

    Arts and craft is beautiful for children and adults to do together.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 12, 2020  

Suggested Resources

  1. ARTS

    What does ARTS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the ARTS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ARTS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Arts is ranked #40144 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Arts surname appeared 546 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Arts.

    92.1% or 503 total occurrences were White.
    4.7% or 26 total occurrences were Black.
    1.4% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'arts' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1958

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'arts' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2455

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Anagrams for arts »

  1. rats

  2. star

  3. tars

  4. tsar

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arts in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of arts in a Sentence

  1. Vanna Bonta:

    My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

  2. Hilary Moss:

    It is important that older people in the hospital are involved in the arts that they enjoy, whatever they are . . . where people can no longer dance, I find anecdotally that they enjoy discussing dance, watching dance and seeing performances, although of course sometimes this creates sadness in no longer being able to participate.

  3. Melinda Hunt:

    I started going there in 1991 during the AIDS epidemic, so many of my friends in the arts community just disappeared and we never knew what happened to their bodies. ... It took a long time before we flew a drone and found those grave sites.

  4. Janelle Kidman:

    We were able to take her into the gallery after hours and show her the Matisse exhibit, which coming from a mother who's raised me in the arts, it was soothing balm, matisse was soothing balm last night.

  5. Uta Hagan:

    More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

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