Handwriting vs Fist - What's the difference?
handwriting | fist |
The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
The characteristic writing of a particular person.
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=F. Marion Crawford, title=Taquisara, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Joseph B. Lightfoot, title=Essays on "Supernatural Religion", chapter=, edition=
, passage=In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=P. S. Allen, title=The Age of Erasmus, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings ; to decipher monograms; to collect facts. }}
Text that was written by hand.
hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
(printing) the pointing hand symbol
(ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
(slang) a person's characteristic handwriting
A group of men.
The talons of a bird of prey.
* Spenser
(informal) An attempt at something.
* 2005 , Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect (page 144)
To strike with the fist.
To close (the hand) into a fist.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 29:
To grip with a fist.
* 1851 ,
(slang) To fist-fuck.
As nouns the difference between handwriting and fist
is that handwriting is the act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed while fist is the act of breaking wind; fise.As verbs the difference between handwriting and fist
is that handwriting is present participle of lang=en while fist is to break wind.As an initialism FIST is
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English
Noun
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Synonyms
* (the act or process of writing done by hand) longhand * (text written by hand) manuscriptSee also
* cursiveVerb
(head)fist
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fisten, fiesten, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fist, from (etyl) 'five'. More at five.Noun
(en noun)- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- More light than culver in the falcon's fist .
- With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
Synonyms
* bunch of fives * fist-size * ductusDerived terms
* fisty * iron fist * hand over fist * fistful * rule with an iron fistVerb
(en verb)- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.'' Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." ''The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.