Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to an allograph.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to an allograph
Examples
“Goodman claims that architecture does have, in the architect's planes, something quite close to a notational system, and hence is, because of that, an allographic art: different buildings, built in different locations and even with certain differences in materials, would be instances of the same work, provided that they correspond to the same plan.”
“Such technique of, we could say, cloning could be accounted for in Goodman's terms as transforming the art of painting from singular to multiple and yet without changing it from autographic to allographic.”
“They are allographic rather than autographic, in the analytical terminology of art theorist Nelson Goodman.”
“English orthography is such that diacritics are allographic and ligatures are allographic.”
Lists
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Words about words
Most of these describe word patterns or relationships between words.
panvocalic, palindrome, anagram, transposition, antigram, reversal, isogram, alternade, trinade, beheadment, decapitation, apheresis and 149 more...
Tweets
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mollusque 1. Signed or written by a proxy.
2. Pertaining to variant shapes of a letter of an alphabet.
3. Using different letters to represent the same sounds. Sep 13, 2008