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Definition: Arty |
ArtyAdjective1. Showily imitative of art or artists. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Crosswords: Arty |
| English words defined with "arty": uncommercial. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Come on Mom, they're supposed to be a little arty. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arty Party (1963) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Battery of mortars and light twelves. Lt. Jackson. 1st Connecticut heavy Arty. 18th Corps. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blacksmith 1st Mass. Arty. Harrisons. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Genl. Hunt--and Major Duane, chief of Arty. and Chief Engineer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Funeral 1st Mass Arty Harrisons landing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Camp of 1st Mass. Arty, Harrisons landing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 7th N.Y. Heavy Arty. in Barlows charge nr. Cold Harbor Friday June 3rd 1864. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., 1918, Camp Lite Coast Arty Corps and Marine Corps. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Arty" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.65% of the time. "Arty" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 54.65% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 43.02% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "arty": arty-crafty, arty-farty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
arty | 34 | arty vinci | 3 |
arty lang | 32 | arty astro | 3 |
arty astronaut | 11 | arty howard lang stern | 3 |
arty clip | 10 | air arty defense nam viet | 3 |
arty lange | 6 | 4 8 arty group yahoo | 3 |
arty import | 5 | arty stallplaketten.net | 3 |
arty howard stern | 4 | arty shaw | 2 |
arty clip free | 4 | arty designs.com farty | 2 |
arty flash ripper | 4 | arty flash player | 2 |
arty astronaut part time | 3 | arty joes | 2 |
arty smarty | 3 | arty stallplaketten.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "arty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Me Pamje Artisti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متطفل على الفن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 附庸风雅. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Pseudoumìlecký, Extravagantní (eccentric), Bohémský (bohemian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Arbejdsgruppe vedroerende Kommissionens Dokumentationspolitik (Working P arty on the Documentation Policy of the Commission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Werkgroep Documentatiebeleid van de Commissie (Working P arty on the Documentation Policy of the Commission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Apprêté. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | affig (affected, apish, apishly, conceited, La-di-da, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, stuck up, too-too). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιδεικτικός (ostentatious, showy, susceptible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ־תימר ּ"יות ְמן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | művészkedő, művészieskedő, giccses (conventional, corny, kitschy, mushy, slushy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nyeni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Pseudoartistico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 포병 (Artillery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ellynoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artyay Artistic (artistic, artistical, artistically, elaborately, masterly, scientific), Afectat (affected, affectedly, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical), Pretins Artistic, Fam. (various references) претендующий на художественность. (various references) Pretensioso (artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, conceited, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious), Pretencioso (airy, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, conceited, exacting, exactingly, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious). (various references) Artistisk (artistic, artistical), Konstnärlig (artistic, artistical). (various references) Gösterişli (artsy, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), Ýddialı. (various references) химерний (arabesque, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, chimerical, conceited, fanciful, freakish, notional, whimsical), вигадливий (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, fancy, niggled, notionate, overwrought), претензійний (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, attitudinizing, pretentious, rococo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "arty": antiparty, biparty, hearty, interparty, multiparty, nonparty, party, smarty, swarty, tarty, warty. (additional references) | |
Words containing "arty": martyr, martyrdom, martyrdoms, martyred, martyries, martyring, martyrization, martyrizations, martyrize, martyrized, martyrizes, martyrizing, martyrly, martyrologies, martyrologist, martyrologists, martyrology, martyrs, martyry, partyer, partyers, partying, protomartyr, protomartyrs. (additional references) | |
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"Arty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acty, Ahti, airity, aity, akti, alty, Anty, aprty, Arati, Arby, areti, Arey, argy, arith, arity, arky, arly, armt, arrt, Arry, Arta, artey, arth, Arthy, arti, artif, artii, Artin, artix, artys, Artz, ary, arzt, asty, athy, ati, atie, atrey, atrib, atrry, att, Atty, aty, Atyp, atyr, Atys, barty, batry, carty, darty, earty, farty, karti, ratby, Ratky, raty, ratyr, sarty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arty" (pronounced Ä"rtē) |
| 4 | Ä" r t ē | hearty, party. |
| 3 | -r t ē | concerti, forty, multiparty, Shorty, sortie, sporty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tray. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: art, rat, ray, rya, tar, try, yar. | |
-2 letters: ar, at, ay, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: artsy, lyart, party, ratty, rhyta, satyr, stray, tardy, tarry, tarty, teary, trays, tryma, warty, yurta. | |
+2 letters: aroynt, artery, artily, astray, azerty, baryta, baryte, betray, bratty, crafty, datary, drafty, earthy, eatery, elytra, estray, gantry, gyrate, hearty, lyrate, martyr, notary, paltry, pantry, parity, partly, pastry, raptly, rarity, ratany, ratify, rattly, realty, rotary, satyrs, smarty, starry, stayer, strawy, strays, stylar, styrax, swarty, tartly, tawdry, trashy, treaty, tyrant, votary, wastry, watery, wrathy, yantra, yarest, yatter, yttria. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 74 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35848691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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