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plural noun

the arts created primarily for visual perception, as drawing, graphics, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.

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Words nearby visual arts

visual acuity, visual aid, visual aids, visual album, visual angle, visual arts, visual binary, visual cortex, visual display terminal, visual display unit, visual effect

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How to use visual arts in a sentence

Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019|Dave Majumdar|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of them were large birds—hawks, egrets, and even peacocks—for spectacular visual effect as they took flight.
The Buddhist Business of Poaching Animals for Good Karma|Brendon Hong|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.
DJ Spooky Wants You To Question Everything You Know About Music, Technology, and Philosophy|Oliver Jones|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, the writers had to rely on visual cues and ambiance.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed|Melissa Leon|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And since visual media is more compelling than any other medium, it is consistently their drug of choice.
North Korea’s Secret Movie Bootleggers: How Western Films Make It Into the Hermit Kingdom|Lizzie Crocker|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Belle Ringold was very shrewd, young as she was, in the arts of gaining and holding the attention of young men.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
Among the ancients, the tools which served in the arts were few in number, and these of exceeding simplicity.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
He served as physician, as well as priest and school-master, and practised and taught the most useful domestic arts.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham

British Dictionary definitions for visual arts

visual arts

pl n

the arts of painting, sculpting, photography, etc, as opposed to music, drama, and literature

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