different between graphic vs wordmark

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

Etymology

word +? mark

Noun

wordmark (plural wordmarks)

1. (marketing) A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is is often text with unique typographic or graphical treatment.

   Coordinate term: trademark

   Hypernyms: logo, logotype

2. (computing) A bit in each memory location on some variable-word-length computers (e.g. IBM 1401, IBM 1620) used to mark the end of a word.

Further reading

• wordmark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia