What's the difference between graphic and grotesque?

Graphic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Graphical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) Three-dimensional (3D) medical graphics is becoming popular in clinical use on tomographic scanners.
  • (3) The parameters of the air flow in the canal of the separator are established in a graphic way.
  • (4) Such models are displayed in 3-D and may further analysed utilizing interactive 3-D computer graphics.
  • (5) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
  • (6) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (7) People want real graphics, real Hollywood-type experiences,” said Collins, a games industry veteran before founding SuperAwesome.
  • (8) The association constants and the binding capacities of association of small molecules with macromolecules have been determined by the tangent analysis, the graphical analysis, and the computer data analysis, by trial and convergence of the Scatchard plot.
  • (9) A protocol for the statistical and graphical evaluation of erythrocyte volume distributions has been developed using expectation-maximization methods for distribution parameter estimation.
  • (10) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
  • (11) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
  • (12) The appropriate educational medium, computer simulation and graphics.
  • (13) On presidential election day 2010 it offered one group in the US a graphic with a link to find nearby polling stations, along with a button that would let you announce that you'd voted, and the profile photos of six other of your "friends" who had already done so.
  • (14) A new method is presented, different from usual methods, for the discussion of the results of computer ECG measurement programs, based on a new graphical evaluation method.
  • (15) Based on the recent progress made in graphic methods of enzyme kinetics, in this review four graphic rules are summarized, which can be used to deal with protein folding systems as well as enzyme-catalyzed systems.
  • (16) The system described in this article features real-time data collection from up to eight ventilators, automated patient charting, graphic trending, and configurable modes for viewing graphic trends.
  • (17) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
  • (18) PCO2 by a graphical approximation technique (PgCO2; "graphical method") underestimated PACO2 by 1-2 mmHg.
  • (19) They used graphic illustrations of time series with a regression line which indicates a rising or declining trend of work incapacity.
  • (20) The integration of these facilities with simple molecular graphics display routines allows modifications to the molecular conformation (such as bond rotations) to be performed, and the effect of these modifications on the NOE effects can then be rapidly calculated and easily visualized.

Grotesque


Definition:

  • (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
  • (n.) Artificial grotto-work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was some fertile ground in which that grotesque lie could be sown.
  • (2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
  • (3) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
  • (4) They look like grotesque open-air swimming pools - and they contain some of the UK's biggest problems regarding nuclear waste.
  • (5) I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque.
  • (6) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.
  • (7) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
  • (8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
  • (9) A combination of dysfunctional family and invasive fame ate away at the essentially private singer, whose initially minor eccentricities escalated into grotesque changes to his appearance and lifestyle.
  • (10) The church cannot face in two directions like a grotesque two-headed monster: one face for public, the other for private.
  • (11) O'Brien has since become notorious among equal rights campaigners for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage and gay adoptions , calling homosexuality a "grotesque subversion" and "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of those involved".
  • (12) He will still be lauded by those who enjoy this grotesque, sadistic sport, whatever his views on gay people or women.
  • (13) The model is then subjected to the criticism that it is grotesque to ignore questions relating to the value of, for example, a productive mother over against an aged recluse, and to treat them as having equal rights to access.
  • (14) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
  • (15) His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat.
  • (16) To put it plainly, PFI charges include too high a rate of interest and grotesquely high returns on equity.
  • (17) But he made grotesque monetary demands for the nonsense of Superman.
  • (18) His conclusion, outlined in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard , is that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that was flooding Denver and the surrounding area at the time of Matthew’s death.
  • (19) It's that to portray Israel as some kind of victim with every right to "defend itself" from attack from "outside its borders" is a grotesque inversion of reality.
  • (20) It also contains a grotesquely racist portrayal of an Asian neighbour by Mickey Rooney.