different between autograph vs automatic

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

Translations

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.

Translations

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

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• automatick

Etymology

From French automatique, from Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from ????? (autós, “self, myself”) + ????? (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??mæt?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t??mæt?k/, [?????mæ??k]
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic) (superlative dubious)

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Antonyms: manual, non-automatic

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless

   Antonym: voluntary

3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

4. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   Coordinate terms: semi-automatic, burst mode, selective action, bolt action, lever action, (single-round per loading/chambering action) pump action

5. (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
6. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
7. (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: automatik
• ? Malay: automatik

Translations

Noun

automatic (plural automatics)

1. A car with automatic transmission.

   I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. A semi-automatic pistol.

Antonyms

• (car with automatic transmission): stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

Translations

See also

(automotive):

• semi-automatic
• manumatic
• manual

Romanian

Etymology

From French automatique

Adjective

automatic m or n (feminine singular automatic?, masculine plural automatici, feminine and neuter plural automatice)

1. automatic

Declension