[Vocabulary] Autograph and Signature

[ngoc_lan]

What is the differences between "autograph" and "signature"?
What do fans ask pop stars for? "autograph" or "signature"?
I hope your answers will help me
Thanks

 

[bhaisahab]

What is the differences between "autograph" and "signature"?
What do fans ask pop stars for? "autograph" or "signature"?
I hope your answers will help me
Thanks

Fans ask celebrities for an autograph.

 

[Rover_KE]

This thread just about covers it.

Rover

 

[ngoc_lan]

Thanks. It's very useful

 

[TheParser]

What is the differences between "autograph" and "signature"?
What do fans ask pop stars for? "autograph" or "signature"?
I hope your answers will help me
Thanks

NOT A TEACHER


Lady [Margaret] Thatcher, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom,

attended a performance of the ballet. "During intermission there was a

queue [line] of three or four little girls, all wanting her autograph."


Source: Newsweek, December 26, 2011.

 

[BobK]

A related but different usage is as an adjective (in both cases).

An autograph [not autographed] copy of a manuscript is written in the author's hand.

A chef's signature dish is one he's famous for making. (This may be related to the expression 'signature tune'.)