The root is 'to draw / write / scratch a line'. Picture something drawn out fully, line by line, so clearly you can see every detail — that is the heart of graphic.
From the word’s history
From Greek graphikos 'of drawing or writing', from graphein 'to scratch, draw, write' (PIE root *gerbh- 'to scratch, carve'). This drawing/depicting root feeds both the 'graphic design' sense and the 'so vividly depicted' sense (the vivid sense in English from the 1660s, the drawing sense from 1756).
來自希臘文 graphikos（關於書寫、繪畫），源自動詞 graphein「刻、畫、寫」（更早的印歐字根 *gerbh- 意為刮、刻）。這個「畫、描繪」的字根，同時長出「和繪圖有關」和「描寫得歷歷在目」兩種意思。
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
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graphicadj/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
- 1
Drawn, pictorial.
- The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
- 2
Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.
- In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.
- 3
Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.
- That practice started on a 2018 visit to Ethiopia, where he encountered Jimma thrones, hewn from a single piece of wood with graphic cutouts.
- 4
geographygeologynatural-sciencesHaving a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- graphic granite
graphicnoun/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
- 1
A drawing or picture.
- 2
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.
- 3
A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.
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