What's the difference between autograph and write?

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!

Write


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
  • (v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  • (v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
  • (v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
  • (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
  • (v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
  • (v. i.) To compose or send letters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
  • (11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
  • (18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.