different between allonge vs autograph

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French allonge (“a lengthening”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?n?/

Noun

allonge (plural allonges)

1. (law, banking) A slip of paper attached to a negotiable instrument to hold endorsements should the document itself be unable to hold any more.
2. (fencing) A thrust or pass; a lunge.

Coordinate terms

• rider

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References

• allonge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

allonge (third-person singular simple present allonges, present participle allonging, simple past and past participle allonged)

1. To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

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Anagrams

• galleon

French

Verb

allonge

1. first-person singular present indicative of allonger
2. third-person singular present indicative of allonger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of allonger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of allonger
5. second-person singular imperative of allonger

English

Etymology

From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek ?????????? (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- +? -graph.

Noun

autograph (plural autographs)

1. A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
2. A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.

Synonyms

• (person’s own handwriting or signature): signature, inscription
• (manuscript in author’s hand): protograph, holograph, archetype, original

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Adjective

autograph (not comparable)

1. Written in the author’s own handwriting.
2. (art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
   • 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:

     Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.

   • 1992, Malise Forbes Adam & Mary Mauchline, in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (ed.), Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books 1992, p. 116:

     Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.

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Verb

autograph (third-person singular simple present autographs, present participle autographing, simple past and past participle autographed)

1. (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
2. (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting

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