-graph

comb. form forming nouns and verbs meaning:
1 a thing written or drawn etc. in a specified way (autograph; photograph).
2 an instrument that records (heliograph; seismograph; telegraph).

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\\ˌgraf, -aa(ə)f, -aif, -ȧf\ noun combining form (-s)

Etymology: Middle French -graphe, from Latin -graphum, from Greek -graphon, from neuter of -graphos written, writing (from graphein to write) — more at carve

1. : something written

cryptograph

holograph

2. : instrument for making or transmitting records

chronograph

phonograph

telegraph

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a combining form meaning "drawn," "written" (lithograph; monograph); specialized in meaning to indicate the instrument rather than the written product of the instrument (telegraph; phonograph).

[ < Gk -graphos (something) drawn or written, one who draws or writes. See GRAPHO-]

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graph¹ «graf, grahf», noun, verb.

–n.

1. a line or diagram showing how one quantity depends on or changes with another: »

Draw a graph to show how your weight has changed each year with your change in age.

2. Mathematics. a curve or other line representing relations of the elements in an equation or function.

–v.t.

to make a graph of: a) to draw a line or diagram representing (some change). b) to draw a line representing (some equation or function).

╂[short for graphic formula; see etym. under graphic (Cf. ↑graphic)]

graph² «graf, grahf», noun, verb.

–n.

an apparatus using the principle of the hectograph for making copies, as of writing or drawings.

–v.t.

to reproduce in a number of copies by means of a graph.

╂[short for hectograph]

graph³ «graf, grahf», noun.

Linguistics. any written sign or symbol representing a phoneme, morpheme, or similar unit. The form ps in psyche is a graph. The letter e in ate is a silent graph.

╂[< Greek graph writing]

-graph,

combining form.

1. an instrument that writes, draws, describes, or records: »

Seismograph = an instrument that records earthquake data.

2. something written, drawn, described, or recorded: »

Autograph = something written by one or oneself.

3. to write, draw, describe, or record: »

Lithograph = to record on stone.

4. drawn, written, or recorded: »

Holograph = written entirely in one's own hand.

╂[< Latin -graphus < Greek -graphos < gráphein draw, write]

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comb. form

1) in nouns denoting something written or drawn in a specified way

autograph

2) in nouns denoting an instrument that records

seismograph

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Origin:

from French -graphe, based on Greek graphos ‘written, writing’

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/ˌgræf, Brit ˌgrɑːf/ noun combining form

1 : something that is written or drawn

an autograph

2 : a machine that records or sends information

a seismograph

a telegraph

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-graph

(grɑːf, -æ-)

repr. F. -graphe, L. -graphus, Gr. -γραϕος. The Greek termination was used to form adjectives, sometimes in the passive sense of ‘written’, e.g. αὐτόγραϕος written with one's own hand, χειρόγραϕος written with the hand; sometimes in the active sense, ‘that writes, delineates, or describes’, chiefly used absol. as ns., ‘one who writes, delineates, or describes’: e.g. ζωγράϕος a painter from life, βιβλιογράϕος a writer of books, γεωγράϕος a delineator of the earth, a geographer. Many of the passive formations in -γραϕος have been anglicized, being for the most part used both as adjs. and ns., as in autograph, chirograph, holograph. These words have been imitated in a few modern ns. formed on Gr. types, as lithograph, photograph; and these in turn have been imitated in hybrid formations, such as pictograph; jocular nonce-words, like hurrygraph for ‘a hurried sketch’, are occasionally met with. The Gr. active formations in -γράϕος, where they have been anglicized, take in mod.Eng. the ending -grapher, which is used also for new formations denoting persons (exceptions, such as calligraph, are rare). The great bulk of the words in -graph is composed of technical terms of very recent invention, mostly formed on Gr. elements, and expressing the general sense of ‘that which writes, portrays, or records’, as actinograph, heliograph, hygrograph, ideograph, phonograph, seismograph, telegraph, etc.