What's the difference between autograph and handwriting?

Autograph


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.
  • (a.) In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was also convicted of groping a girl aged about eight who had sought his autograph at a public event in Portsmouth, and touching a teenage waitress during the filming of a TV show in Cambridge.
  • (2) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
  • (3) The analysis of the autographs demonstrated that during wound healing the cell-precursors of macrophages and fibroblasts migrate from beyond the limits of the connective tissue.
  • (4) Until recently Frazier had been making regular appearances to sign autographs, including a trip to Las Vegas in September.
  • (5) In his ultra-modern office, seated behind an array of photographs autographed by the likes of Ted Kennedy and George Bush Snr, Antonis Samaras does not come across as a particularly anti-establishment figure.
  • (6) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
  • (7) The league said on Friday that donations would total no less than $100,000, and it will also auction off Collins’s autographed, game-worn jerseys to benefit the same organisations.
  • (8) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
  • (9) These examples of images on the websites of Autographer and Narrative Clip , two leading wearable cameras, reveal the kind of things their makers imagine we might do with their devices.
  • (10) Vascular perfusion of all products required for primary fixation, postfixation, dehydration and embedding of nervous tissue in Epon permits radio-autographic detection of radioactivity accumulated in the central nervous system after intravenous injection of [3H]deoxyglucose.
  • (11) Costa, who had made way for the youngster, was busy signing autographs and taking selfies with the supporters behind the dugout by that stage.
  • (12) Thereafter, the distribution of autographically labelled astrocytes expressing glial fibrillary protein (GFAP) and astrocyte-like cells expressing vimentin were recorded within the region of injury.
  • (13) On display will be 250 items, including an autographed manuscript of De Profundis, Wilde's long confessional letter from prison to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover, whose father brought about Wilde's fall from grace.
  • (14) "You get the good bits, where people knock on your door and just want an autograph.
  • (15) The film shows Corbyn signing photographs, tiles and books for supporters, and promising to autograph apples from his allotment in the autumn.
  • (16) In my little autograph book are Gary Rhodes , Antony Worrall Thompson and Angela Hartnett .
  • (17) It was the autographs.” Muhammad Ali never felt sorry for himself, even as his physical condition worsened.
  • (18) I came outside to see her surrounded by people, asking for her autograph.
  • (19) It's made me return to my meagre merchandise collection – a prop newspaper from III, a replica hoverboarding helmet from II (which came pre-autographed by the actor Thomas F Wilson , with the inscription "Biff to the Future!
  • (20) One from 2013 read: “I will be very happy if you can send me your autograph!

Handwriting


Definition:

  • (n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
  • (n.) That which is written by hand; manuscript.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
  • (2) Despite control for sex-typed handwriting cues in the second study, 8 male novitiates' responses were assessed as less empathic than those of 8 females.
  • (3) It was found that automated speech recognition (ASR) permitted doctors to produce their reports faster and more accurately than handwriting or dictation to tape.
  • (4) In the second experiment, preadolescent learning-disabled students who were required to read and spell correctly a greater number of words per reward token later spent more time and completed more work for reward tokens in mathematics, and handwriting.
  • (5) When I returned home from Athens, among the waiting mail, there was a letter written to me in the handwriting that had become so familiar over the previous 10 years.
  • (6) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
  • (7) During the study period, psychopathometric data, prolactin plasma levels, and handwriting samples were collected.
  • (8) 2ptspls) but handwriting at length, to be read by others, seems now to be confined to school and university examinations.
  • (9) After all, there's no call for handwriting in most jobs today, any more than there is any requirement for independent thought.
  • (10) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (11) effect on the handwriting area was manifest from 8 to 48 h after administration and reached maximum intensity between 24 and 36 h. This is consistent with rather a large duration of action observed clinically.
  • (12) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
  • (13) However, correlations among scores on 6 measures showed that handwriting was significantly related to visuomotor integration, visual form perception, and tracing in the total group and to visuomotor integration and visual form perception in the clumsy group.
  • (14) Examined the relationship between certain handwriting characteristics and Eysenck's Extraversion-Introversion and Kagan's Impulsivity-Reflectivity personality dimensions.
  • (15) Howard R. Hughes was eliminated as the possible writer of the questioned handwriting on Exhibits Q-1 through Q-35.
  • (16) Technology seems to have ruined our collective handwriting ability.
  • (17) With that, you can open five other features: • Action Memo lets you handwrite a note.
  • (18) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.
  • (19) Although the phrase, "handwriting is brainwriting," is commonly heard, there is little in the literature to support the statement.
  • (20) At the left parietal leads in the normal readers, the morphology of the verbal stimuli (capitals and handwriting) were very similar throughout the sweep and both were very different from the nonverbal stimuli.