(~s)
1.
Painting and sculpture, in which objects are produced that are beautiful rather than useful, can be referred to as ~ or as the ~s.
He deals in antiques and ~.
...the university of Cairo’s faculty of ~s.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
2.
If you have got something down to a ~, you are able to do it in a very skilful or efficient way because you have had a lot of experience of doing it.
PHRASE: V inflects