What's the difference between calligraphy and handwriting?

Calligraphy


Definition:

  • (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
  • (2) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
  • (3) During the early 1960s, Burroughs and his colleague, the painter and writer Brion Gysin , had developed the cut-up as a method of visual and verbal reassembly that was equally applicable to painting, montaged artworks, calligraphy, tape manipulation and the word.
  • (4) He stays healthy and alert by eating well and practising calligraphy, according to his family.
  • (5) Thus began the evolution of this city’s distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
  • (6) "She was so approachable," said Lu Yuhong, 16, who guided the first lady in writing the Chinese character "eternal" in calligraphy at the Beijing school.
  • (7) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (8) Stores are offering Rooster-themed products, Chinese calligraphy or handing out treats in traditional red envelopes.
  • (9) But Mo told Der Spiegel that he only joined in with the project because he was "vain enough to take the opportunity to show off with my calligraphy".
  • (10) Ahmad Salma, a Syrian of Palestinian origin, used the sinuous swirls of different styles of Arabic calligraphy to spell out the names of the provinces of Syria – to emphasise unity in the face of violence and rising sectarianism.
  • (11) With chainsaws and chisels, carving ice requires techniques from tree surgery to calligraphy.
  • (12) He left his homeland in the early 60s to spend two years in China, steeping himself in its language and calligraphy.
  • (13) In the few hours that sunlight enters the dark cell we read what a past cellmate has inscribed on the walls in an elegant Arabic calligraphy.
  • (14) Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
  • (15) Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who , but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.
  • (16) Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.
  • (17) He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
  • (18) For services to Western Calligraphy and the community in Northern Ireland.
  • (19) Not only is Mao's own rather wild calligraphy everywhere to be seen in Shaoshan - on paper, on rocks, on walls, on silk - but also that of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
  • (20) Wen Huaisha, a former Pekin University teacher and a specialist in Chinese literature is in France for an exhibition of his calligraphy at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris.

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.