graphic arts

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plural noun

Also called graphics. the arts or techniques, as engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut, lithography, and other methods, by which copies of an original design are printed from a plate, block, or the like.

the arts of drawing, painting, and printmaking.

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Origin of graphic arts

First recorded in 1660–70

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How to use graphic arts in a sentence

Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.
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Surely all this graphic talk of gastrointestinal distress is making you queasy.
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“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.
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Detainees were described, in graphic detail, being rectally fed against their will.
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Later, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City after developing an interest in filmmaking.
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The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.
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It seems hardly possible to draw a more graphic picture of the blessings diffused by the balmy plant, than that just given.
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Belle Ringold was very shrewd, young as she was, in the arts of gaining and holding the attention of young men.
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Among the ancients, the tools which served in the arts were few in number, and these of exceeding simplicity.
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He served as physician, as well as priest and school-master, and practised and taught the most useful domestic arts.
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British Dictionary definitions for graphic arts

graphic arts

pl n

any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

graphic arts

Origin of graphic arts

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How to use graphic arts in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for graphic arts