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Graphic vs Animated - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between graphic and animated

is that graphic is drawn, pictorial while animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

As a noun graphic

is a drawing or picture.

As a verb animated is

past tense of animate.

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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    animated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)

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