Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to written representation.
- adjective Of or relating to pictorial representation.
- adjective Of, relating to, or represented by a graph.
- adjective Depicted or described in vivid detail: synonym: vivid.
- adjective Of or relating to the graphic arts.
- adjective Of or relating to graphics.
- adjective Geology Having crystals resembling printed characters.
- noun A work of graphic art.
- noun A diagram or image used for illustration, as in a lecture.
- noun A graphic display generated by a computer or an imaging device.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Concerned with or using graphs.
- Pertaining to the art of writing; concerned with writing, or with words as written; chirographic; orthographic: as, graphic representation; a mere graphic variation.
- Written; inscribed; expressed by letters.
- Pertaining to the art of delineation, drawing, or picturing; concerned with the expression or conveyance of ideas by lines or strokes, as distinguished from alphabetic characters: as, the graphic arts.
- Exhibiting as in a picture; representing with accuracy; describing effectively or vividly; vivid.
- Working by drawings to scale instead of by arithmetical calculations.
- Concerned with position, not with measurement.
- In pathology, a mode of studying diseases of the heart and the great vessels by tracings of an instrument, as the sphygmograph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
- adjective Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
- adjective Having the faculty of clear, detailed, and impressive description.
- adjective Well delineated; clearly and vividly described; characterized by, clear, detailed, and impressive description; vivid; evoking lifelike images within the mind.
- adjective describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail.
- adjective relating to or presented by a graph{2}.
- adjective , a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines.
- adjective a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture.
- adjective (Chem.) See under
Formula . - adjective See under
Granite . - adjective the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature.
- adjective (Math.) See
Sylvanite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
drawn ,pictorial - adjective
vivid ,descriptive - adjective
grotesque or otherwiserepulsively gory - adjective
pornographic - noun A
drawing orpicture . - noun mostly in plural A computer-generated
image as viewed on a screen forming part of agame or afilm etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an image that is generated by a computer
- adjective relating to or presented by a graph
- adjective evoking lifelike images within the mind
- adjective of or relating to the graphic arts
- adjective written or drawn or engraved
- adjective describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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As I prepare for a new year of book reviews, both conceptually deep and in graphic novels, I am finishing off my backlog of trade paperback anthology (more frequently and inaccurately called graphic novels) reviews.
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The legendary cartoonist Will Eisner popularized the term "graphic novel" with books like A Contract with God.
Douglas Wolk: How Comics Became Literature for Adults Douglas Wolk 2011
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The legendary cartoonist Will Eisner popularized the term "graphic novel" with books like A Contract with God.
Douglas Wolk: How Comics Became Literature for Adults Douglas Wolk 2011
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Superhero movies rule the box office, and thanks to the term "graphic novel," hipsters...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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How differently would a conversation go if you choose the word "graphic novel" in place of comic book?
Dave Scheidt: It's Called a Comic Book, Not Graphic Novel Dave Scheidt 2011
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The date is also flashed across the screen following the title graphic which read "Brotherly encounter between Fidel and Chávez."
Venezuela Counters Chávez Rumors With Video Ezequiel Minaya 2011
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The date is also flashed across the screen following the title graphic which read "Brotherly encounter between Fidel and Chávez."
Venezuela Counters Chávez Rumors With Video Ezequiel Minaya 2011
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How differently would a conversation go if you choose the word "graphic novel" in place of comic book?
Dave Scheidt: It's Called a Comic Book, Not Graphic Novel Dave Scheidt 2011
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How differently would a conversation go if you choose the word "graphic novel" in place of comic book?
Dave Scheidt: It's Called a Comic Book, Not Graphic Novel Dave Scheidt 2011
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With the advent of books like Watchmen , I think these people were given license by the term graphic novel .
Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic 2009
bilby commented on the word graphic
I must admit to some discomfort as a reader when meaning 4 collides with 9/10, viz:
"Warning: Some images are graphic."
- The Egypt Protests, 28 Jan 2011.
February 1, 2011