Paraph

  

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Paraph

Definition: Paraph

Paraph

Noun

1. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms within Context: Paraph

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

Indication

Signature, mark, autograph, autography; attestation; hand, hand writing, sign manual; cipher; seal, sigil, signet, hand and seal; paraph, brand; superscription; indorsement, endorsement.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Paraph

English words defined with "paraph": Paraphed, Paraphing. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Paraph

DomainTitle

Books

  • Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Paraph

Language Translations for "paraph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nënshkruaj me iniciale, iniciale në nënshkrim. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

завъртулка след послепис, парафирам (endorse, initial), параф (initial). (various references)

   

French

  

paraphe. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kézjegy (hand, mark), kézjeggyel ellát. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

araphpay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

parafã (flourish, initial, scroll). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ставить инициалы, росчерк в подписи, подписывать (sign, undersign, underwrite), парафировать, параф. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

parafirati (initial), paraf (initials). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rubricar (rubricate), rúbrica (rubric, scroll). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

paraf. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

візувати (vise), парафувати, параф. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nét ngoáy sau. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Paraph

Derivations

Words beginning with "paraph": paraphernalia, paraphrasable, paraphrase, paraphrased, paraphraser, paraphrasers, paraphrases, paraphrasing, paraphrastic, paraphrastically, paraphs, paraphyses, paraphysis. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Paraph

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-p-p-r"

-2 letters: haar, harp, papa, para.

-3 letters: aah, aha, hap, pah, pap, par, rah, rap.

-4 letters: aa, ah, ar, ha, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-p-p-r"
 

+1 letter: paraphs.

 

+2 letters: approach.

 

+3 letters: apocrypha, paragraph, paranymph, phalarope, scrapheap.

 

+4 letters: apocryphal, approached, approaches, naprapathy, pantograph, paragraphs, paranymphs, paraphrase, paraphyses, paraphysis, phalaropes, scrapheaps.

 

+5 letters: apparatchik, approaching, handicapper, hypercapnia, hyperphagia, hyperplasia, paleography, pantographs, paperhanger, paragraphed, paragrapher, paragraphic, paraphrased, paraphraser, paraphrases, paratyphoid, planography, slaphappier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Paraph


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 72 61 70 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .-.    .-    .--.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0072 0061 0070 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506784678274

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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