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media | graphic |

As a verb media

is .

As an adjective graphic is

drawn, pictorial.

As a noun graphic is

a drawing or picture.

media

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(mediae)
  • (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  • (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
  • (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
    • Usage notes
    Not to be confused with medium.
    Derived terms
    * tunica media * medial
    Synonyms
    *(vein of insect wing) M
    Antonyms
    * (voiced stop) (l)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
    • As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media''' and, second, web-based '''media''', traditional print-based ' media has declined in popularity.
  • The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    • Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
    Derived terms
    * media darling * media event (pos n) * mediagenic * mediascape (pos n) * multimedia * mass media * mainstream media * media circus * media whore

    Anagrams

    * English disputed terms English nouns with irregular plurals English words affected by prescriptivism ----

    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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