different between graphic vs patterned

English

Alternative forms

• graphick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from ????? (graph?, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from ????? (gráph?, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æf?k/
• Rhymes: -æf?k

Adjective

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
3. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

Derived terms

• graphics card

Related terms

• graphical

Translations

Noun

graphic (plural graphics)

1. A drawing or picture.
2. (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

   I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.

Related terms

• graphic art
• graph
• graphical
• graphician
• lithographic
• photographic
• pornographic
• reprographic

Translations

Further reading

• graphic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• graphic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• graphic at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Adjective

patterned (not comparable)

1. Conformed to a pattern, a model to be followed.

   The Royal Navy kept patterned birches and patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships

2. Supplied with a pattern

Synonyms

• (conformed to a pattern):
• (with a pattern): See also Thesaurus:marked

Translations

Verb

patterned

1. simple past tense and past participle of pattern

Derived terms

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments

Anagrams

• depattern, preattend