different between conjugation vs autograph

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coniug?ti? (“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniug? (“join, unite together”). Equivalent to conjugate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?????e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?????e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conjugation (countable and uncountable, plural conjugations)

1. The coming together of things; union.
2. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
3. Sexual relations within marriage
4. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
5. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
6. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
7. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
8. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg^-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
9. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation

Coordinate terms

• declension, declination

Related terms

• conjugate

Translations

See also

• flection, flexion, inflection, inflexion

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