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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graphic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a graphic account (=very clear with a lot of details, especially unpleasant details)
▪ He wrote a graphic account of his time in jail.
a graphic description (=very clear and containing a lot of details, usually about something unpleasant)
▪ The book has some graphic descriptions of life in the prison camp.
a graphic designer (=who designs the way pictures and words look in books, magazines etc)
▪ He's been working as a graphic designer for two years.
a graphic example (=very clear and full of unpleasant details)
▪ The film is full of graphic examples of what can go wrong if the proper safety procedures are not followed.
a graphics file
▪ This handy utility allows you to change graphics files from one format to another.
computer graphics (=images created by computers)
▪ There’s a massive market for high-speed computer graphics.
graphic design
graphic detail (=a lot of very clear and often unpleasant detail)
▪ I didn't like the graphic detail of the violence in the film.
graphics card
software/word-processing/graphics etc package
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ One of the most graphic came from experienced Paul Futcher after a Rush treble against Barnsley.
▪ Photoshop is the program used by most graphic artists for the slick effects seen on the Web.
■ NOUN
art
▪ Its activities cover programming, installation and maintenance, staff training, desktop publishing as well as graphic art and video production.
▪ It since has helped sponsor a number of graphic arts academies in the state.
▪ These are the main raw materials in Kodak's Estar polyester film base for graphic arts films.
▪ The palace is now home to the National Gallery's collection of graphic art.
artist
▪ Certainly she was no philistine, but a graphic artist herself.
▪ This instrument was very serviceable to artists, graphic artists especially, working in competition with the camera.
▪ The latter is what follows from that, prints in the case of a graphic artist, editions for the sculptor.
▪ Andrea Saenz-Proano, 23, a graphic artist of San Diego.
▪ Photoshop is the program used by most graphic artists for the slick effects seen on the Web.
design
▪ Professional advice on graphic design is valuable.
▪ A Bay Area native, he started out in graphic design, but soon branched out.
▪ Create impressive graphic designs on your walls; all it takes is courage and a little sleight of hand.
▪ Thirdly, the new style guides have clearly been influenced by some interesting graphic design work.
▪ Richie, the youngest at 15, was in the throes of GCSEs and hopeful of a career in graphic design.
▪ On the opposite wall, a print was mounted; an austere graphic design, white and grey to match.
designer
▪ Second prize went to graphic designer Beverley Dowson, 22, of Bishop Auckland.
▪ But 230 pounds was life-threatening for a 5-foot-1-inch graphic designer named Rachel Kochackis.
▪ Visual communication is not the exclusive domain of the graphic designer or the advertising executive.
▪ The questionnaire itself will be made more user-friendly, said Sylvia Harris, a census consultant and graphic designer at Yale University.
▪ Ballard, 29, a graphic designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
▪ Melinda Bergman Burgener is a free-lance writer and graphic designer who lives in San Francisco.
▪ She then undertook a geographical and creative pilgrimage, working as an art instructor, graphic designer and book illustrator.
detail
▪ For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
▪ Their obsessive story is told in graphic detail as they sail merrily along on an ocean liner.
▪ She knew exactly what he meant, could recall in graphic detail the event to which he was referring.
▪ More subtle is the way the minor second also becomes symbolic of the Storm, again starting as a purely graphic detail.
equaliser
▪ It has a serious graphic equaliser, full logic cassette deck and an all-singing all-dancing spectrum analyser.
▪ Later that week I bought a Kenwood cassette player, four good speakers and a graphic equaliser.
example
▪ Today he uses the Catalina bighorns in his classes, as a graphic example of how not to manage wildlife.
▪ At Hubbard Woods Elementary an even more graphic example of the troubled world our children face reared its ugly head.
illustration
▪ Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters.
image
▪ But techniques of reproducing graphic images - illustrations - were very slow to develop.
▪ PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit, annotate and sort the result.
▪ In accord with its graphic image, the desired detachment stands half-way between a mild staccato and a legato.
▪ Other graphics formats Naturally, there are lots of other ways to get graphic images on to a Web page.
▪ Blow up an enlargement, most frequently of a graphic image or photograph.
representation
▪ Most of the documentation aids are graphic representations of the subject matter.
▪ A Levy-Jennings quality control chart is a graphic representation of the acceptable limits of variation in the results of an analytic method.
▪ This graphic representation of idea growth provides information that will assist in the optimization of the stages of the innovation process.
▪ The graphic representation of violence in the twentieth century has presented a set of complex issues.
violence
▪ Any flip of the remote control will serve up countless images of graphic violence.
work
▪ Documents the friendship between artist and dealer through drawings, gouaches and graphic work.
works
▪ They have also incorporated paintings, photos and graphic works by women artists to give their arguments an extra visual punch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The movie contains graphic language and scenes of drug use.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the film goes on to develop graphic, orifice-stuffing permutations on the theme of you are what you eat.
▪ For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
▪ Java applets are capable of handling a wide variety of graphic formats as well as creating graphics on the fly.
▪ Photoshop is the program used by most graphic artists for the slick effects seen on the Web.
▪ The electrocardiogram provides a graphic indication of the membrane effects of altered potassium concentrations.
▪ We also captured some graphic film of the screaming kids.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
graphic

expressed \expressed\ adj.

  1. Communicated in words.

    Syn: uttered, verbalized.

  2. Precisely and clearly expressed, leaving nothing to implication. Opposite of implicit. [Narrower terms: graphic] Also See: definite, denotative, denotive, overt, open, unequivocal, unambiguous.

    Syn: explicit, express.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
graphic

"vivid," 1570s (implied in graphically), from Latin graphicus "picturesque," from Greek graphikos "of or for writing, belonging to drawing, picturesque," from graphe "writing, drawing," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Meaning "of or pertaining to drawing" is from 1756. Related: Graphically. Graphic design is attested by 1956. Graphic equalizer is from 1969.

Wiktionary
graphic

a. 1 drawn, pictorial 2 vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence n. 1 A drawing or picture. 2 (context mostly in plural English) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

WordNet
graphic
  1. adj. written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols" [syn: graphical, in writing(p)]

  2. describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; "graphic sexual scenes"

  3. of or relating to the graphic arts; "the etchings, drypoints, lithographis, and engravings which together form his graphic work"- Brit. Book News

  4. relating to or presented by a graph; "a graphic presentation of the data" [syn: graphical]

  5. evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: lifelike, pictorial, vivid]

Wikipedia
Graphic (TV series)

Graphic was a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1956 to 1957.

Graphic (disambiguation)

Graphic may denote:

  • Graphics, two-dimensional images
  • Graph (disambiguation)
Newspapers:
  • The Graphic (later The Daily Graphic and The National Graphic), London, UK (1869–1932)
  • Daily Graphic (New York, 1873–89)
  • Daily Graphic (Ghana) (since 1950)
  • New York Graphic (1924–32)
  • The Newberg Graphic, Newberg, Oregon, United States (since 1888)
  • Sunday Graphic, London, UK (1927–60)
Places:
  • Graphic, Arkansas, unincorporated community in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States
Specific type within a genus:
  • Graphic arts, subset of two-dimensional visual fine arts, especially drawing and engraving, relying more on line or tone than on color
  • Graphic character, any encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs (as opposed to most control characters)
  • Graphic charter, document containing the rules regarding the graphic identity of a project, company or organisation
  • Graphic communication, communications incorporating graphics instead of or in addition to words and gestures
  • Graphic design, correct use of typography, space, image and color
  • Graphic kit, set of decals to customize a motor vehicle
  • Graphic matroid, cycle matroid or polygon matroid, a matroid whose independent sets are the forests in a given undirected graph
  • Graphic notation, representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notation
  • Graphic novel, narrative in comic-book format
  • Graphic organizer, knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram
  • Graphic telescope, a type of camera lucida that has the power of a telescope.
  • Graphic texture, a texture of igneous rocks created by exsolution and devitrification and immiscibility processes
  • Graphic violence, realistic depiction of extreme violence in visual media

Usage examples of "graphic".

He turned on the fathometer, and in moments the Cobia Hole rose in graphic relief on the screen.

The curtest, least graphic description of the biting days and nights in the trenches set the lad shivering.

Old literature was not nearly as graphic as fibs, but it was different enough to involve her for a time.

I gave an inward groan and hightailed it into the club, but not before one of the photographers managed to blind me with a flashbulb explosion from his Speed Graphic.

First, here is that astringent graphic commentator on the contemporary mores and folkways of these United States, the inimitable Joe Chuck.

Mingolla tried to ignore him by studying the label on his beer bottle: a red-and-black graphic portraying a Guatemalan soldier, his rifle upheld in victory.

The front of his tee had a graphic of a two-door lowrider coupe painted a vivid cranberry with lots of yellow pinstriped patterns.

But she had more in mind for Xan Meo than mere seduction and the graphic disabusing of his wife.

As they went about their work observing the approach of the second asteroid, the astronomers of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory outstation 200 kilometers west of Tokyo kept one eye on the television and the graphic depictions of destruction in the Americas.

As you can see by the Pallas Ril Lifeclock graphic in the corner of your screen, our best estimate leaves her with less than eighty hours remaining, plus or minus ten hours perhaps as much as nearly four days, or as little as less than three.

Shaw jinked left, then right, his eyes fixed now on the pipper crawling toward the target graphic on his screen.

After we developed the name and graphic identity for the Quantrex line of products, we placed it on hats, shirts, Frisbees, balloons .

You can see visuals, graphic presentations and movies from around the globe.

With Brody gone to meet with the graphic artist who did our ads, I had the office to myself.

A trip to some northern working town with mills not yet converted to heritage interpretation centres or graphic arts studios?