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Animation vs Graphic - What's the difference?

animation | graphic |

As nouns the difference between animation and graphic

is that animation is animation while graphic is a drawing or picture.

As an adjective graphic is

drawn, pictorial.

animation

English

(wikipedia animation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  • * 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
  • * by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
  • (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  • The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
    • He recited the story with great animation .
  • The condition of being animate or alive.
  • * Landor
    • Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
  • (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
  • * 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:
    • "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

    Synonyms

    * (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) life

    Derived terms

    (Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animation

    Descendants

    * Japanese: ) (borrowed)

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -tion ----

    graphic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * graphick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • drawn, pictorial
  • vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence

    • Related terms

    * graphical

    Derived terms

    * graphics card

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drawing or picture.
  • (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

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