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Graphic vs Patterned - What's the difference?

graphic | patterned |

As adjectives the difference between graphic and patterned

is that graphic is drawn, pictorial while patterned is conform to a pattern, a model to be followed.

As a noun graphic

is a drawing or picture.

As a verb patterned is

past tense of pattern.

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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    patterned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Conform 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

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pattern)

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