AUTHOR'S

  

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AUTHOR'S

Specialty Definition: AUTHOR'S

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Publishing & Graphic Arts

Changes required by the author or buyer after type has been correctly set to original specifications. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: AUTHOR'S

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Printing

Folio; (book); copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AUTHOR'S

English words defined with "AUTHOR'S": autographiccreep inelusivenessmemoir, metonymic, metonymicalnamed, nom de plumepen namesneak inuniversalize. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AUTHOR'S": Abrupt, AllworthyBobadil, BRAILLE-AND-TALKING BOOKS CLERKCoursewriter IIIdedicatory letter, doubled sigFloor ManagerGrangerisePosterity, PURITYsatire. (references)

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Modern Usage: AUTHOR'S

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Movie/TV Titles

The Author's Dream And the Villain Still Pursued Her; or (1906)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: AUTHOR'S

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Books

  • The Making of Toro: Bull Fights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He So Richly Deserves (reference)

  • The Poetry of Alan Greenspan: Recorded Rather Painstakingly, but Nevertheless With Adequate Regard for the Author's Central Thrust (reference)

  • Three Days of Rain: The American Plan; The Author's Voice; Hurrah at Last (reference)

  • Stephen King: The Second Decade, Danse MacAbre to the Dark Half (Twayne's United States Author's Series, No. 599) (reference)

  • Ethnographical Studies in Celebes: Results of the Author's Expedition to Celebes, 1917-1920 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: AUTHOR'S

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Photo Album: AUTHOR'S

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Title page of "Opticks ...." by Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. Fourth edition " corrected by the author's own hand, and left before his death with the bookseller". Published in 1730. Library call number QC353 .N48 1730. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Sundry seal sketches from the author's portfolio. Plate VIII, page 74. On St. Paul Island. In: "Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska." By United States Treasury Department, Special Agents Division. 1898. Volume III. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

The Author's first ride in Perak. Credit: Library of Congress.

George McCann, superintendent of the Terhune home, by lake with the late author Albert Terhune's collies, that figured prominently in many of the author's novels and stories, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: AUTHOR'S

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Samuel Butler

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AUTHOR'S

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Health

You will see that the information provided includes the dissertation's title, its author, and the author's institution. (references)

Business

The term of copyright protection of a work is for the author's life plus 50 years after the author's death. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Literary copyrights are protected for fifty years following the author's death (or posthumous publication). (references)

Israel

The norm for royalties is 4-5 percent of the turnover, although higher rates are common for luxury articles, author's fees, and for specialized machinery. (references)

Spain

Please note that under Spanish law, the term intellectual property is limited to the author's rights (copyright) and does not include patents and trademarks (industrial property rights). (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Korea's Copyright Act protects an author's rights, but local prosecutors take no action against infringement unless the copyright holder files a formal complaint. (references)

TAIWAN

The new law will treat "computer programs" as literary works conferring economic rights for a term consisting of the life of the author and fifty years after the author's death. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: AUTHOR'S

Expressions using "AUTHOR'S": author's alteration author's name author's royalties. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AUTHOR'S

Language Translations for "AUTHOR'S"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i autorit. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

авторски, писателски (writer's, writing). (various references)

   

Danish

  

forfatterkorrektur (author's alteration). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

auteursnaam (author's name). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tekijäpalkkio (author's remuneration, royalty), tekijännimi (author's name), tekijän nimi (author's name). (various references)

   

French

  

correction d'auteur (author's alteration). (various references)

   

German

  

Autorkorrektur (author's alteration). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όνομα του συγγραφέα (author's name). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szerzõi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

revisione (audit, auditing, overhaul, review, revisal, reviser, revision, service, servicing), correzione (correction, reading, revision). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

乞高評 (with the author's compliments). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"う"うひょう (with the author's compliments). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

author'say

   

Portuguese

  

correcção por conta do autor (author's alteration). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

авторский (auctorial, authorial). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

autorski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

corrección del autor (author's alteration). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utgivarens. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: AUTHOR'S

Misspellings

"AUTHOR'S" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: authoris, Autores, euphorbs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AUTHOR'S

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-h-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: authors.

-2 letters: author, rouths, torahs.

-3 letters: autos, harts, hoars, horas, horst, hosta, hours, hurst, hurts, oaths, ratos, roast, rotas, roust, routh, routs, ruths, shoat, short, shout, south, stour, surah, sutra, tahrs, taros, thous, torah, toras, torus, tours, trash.

-4 letters: arts, auto, hart, hast, hats, haut, hoar, hora, host, hots, hour, hurt, huts, oars, oast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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