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noun

a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.

the use of such movements to express thought, emotion, etc.

any action, courtesy, communication, etc., intended for effect or as a formality; considered expression; demonstration: a gesture of friendship.

verb (used without object)

to make or use a gesture or gestures.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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verb (used with object)

to express by a gesture or gestures.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin gestūra mode of action, manner, bearing, equivalent to Latin gest(us) past participle of gerere to bear, carry on, perform + ūra -ure

Related forms

ges·tur·al, adjective

ges·tur·er, noun

un·ges·tur·al, adjective

un·ges·tur·ing, adjective

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The policy attached to his gestures may in fact be extensive and effective.

The gestures you make are careful and labored, designed to keep you steady.

He has also developed special gestures to call up menus and perform other commands.

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The policy attached to his gestures may in fact be extensive and effective.

The gestures you make are careful and labored, designed to keep you steady.

He has also developed special gestures to call up menus and perform other commands.

Explain that gestures don't always mean the same thing in different countries.

Monkeys may be able to devise gestures to communicate specific ideas.

The slang use of iced connotes bejeweled or monolithic gestures.

Gestures let you control playback without having to hunt down a tiny on-screen button.

Their gestures are identical, stiff-armed with right palm facing down.

There have been scores of other pauses for mourning and reflection, many other gestures large and small.

Endowments are vague, amalgamated gestures toward a supposedly grand tomorrow.

People are less disposed to make costly gestures towards environmental protection in a slump.

What's more, the spiders sometimes made territorial gestures at the metalmarks-and occasionally backed away.

The ability to mimic the gestures and vocal tones of those you are trying to convince.

The mouse detects touch gestures that trigger different functions.

Don't use your left hand for contact with others, eating or gestures.

But there is also enough space left over for other members of the crew to call people out on those same rhetorical gestures.

But rich countries are mercifully quick to make grand gestures in the immediate aftermath of awful calamities.

Begging gestures on behalf of some of the recipients had no effect.

Equal when people are angry on the phone, you do not have to understand the words, you see it in their gestures and on their face.

It has an easier time recognizing some gestures and postures than others.

There are many elegant stretching and bending gestures and the women's long gloves draw attention to the arm movements.

There are deep instincts in people that respond automatically to such gestures.

And they also serve as a forum for political gestures to be made.

Such gestures are important in a world where hunting seems increasingly irrelevant and misunderstood.

Taken together, this may allow domestic horses to read human communicative gestures particularly well.

There are also definable custom gestures for stock phrases or names.

Finally, he starts to choke up, and gestures to the camera to stop shooting.

He likes to paint the big picture with broad gestures and vivid language.

Mohammed, by his side, he'd walk the empty waterfront and paint his dream in the air with words and gestures.

The projector would be able to interpret gestures and silhouette movements.

Plan your posture and gestures and practice in front of a mirror.

The prime minister has earned something of a reputation for grand gestures and promises with little follow-through.

Rosing turns to the crowd and gestures for everyone to join in.

The table will track gestures and even discern emotions, the makers claim.

Translating these gestures into military help, however, may prove more tricky.

Grand gestures and heroic statements usually look out of place here.

Even veteran dissidents concede that the atmosphere has improved, and that the emir's gestures have created optimism.

Only gentle gestures among the idle creatures suggest a common interest: conserve energy.

They surface all the time in small, melancholy gestures.

He gestures with crooked fingers to the changes to his hometown.

They have a rich ranger of submissive and dominance postures and gestures.

Gestures work better than words, and pointing is better still cuz it mimics pointing the sprayer.

Then two women standing side by side made agitated gestures while bending and turning in unison.

Slabaugh said, a band member directed obscene hand gestures at him and rammed into him during an encounter in a hallway.

Then he gestures to the bomblets strapped to either side.

Harding gasping, shuddering and desperately making obscene gestures with both strapped-down hands.

Moreover, hand gestures are a relatively local signal.

Recent research includes work on gestures and language as well as selfishness versus altruism in chimpanzees.

They'll see a lot of gestures combined with larger modern dance movements.

The others were told to exchange no verbal signals or gestures of any kind.

He then goes on to mention the fact that infants mimic gestures and faces made by their parents.

Out there"-he gestures toward craggy cliffs to the north-"the land of the barbarians".

Sensors stuffed into it help it make some gestures such as lifting one of its furry hands up in response to external stimuli.

Numberless works from the postwar era exhibit a gray, generalized surface, teeming with athematic gestures.

It seems that my discouraging behavior in response to some of your friendly gestures is not clear enough.

His words and gestures at that site will be watched carefully.

He shakes his head while he makes the hand gestures of driving and talking on the.

Then he gestures to the bomblets strapped to either side of.

They observe and reveal simple gestures that speak volumes.

By contrast, predictable political gestures invariably come across as grandiose or hollow.

That's because scientists then believed that expressions and gestures were learned socially and varied among cultures.

He is a master of timing, of crushing punch lines, of eloquent gestures and facial expressions.

People fail to signal, people refuse to let you in, people use rude hand gestures.

Think handwriting recognition, multi-touch gestures and so on.

Gestures can be fascinating because of the way people interpret their meanings and then act on them.

Make a lot of wild gestures so that you scatter ashes over students sitting in the front row.

Benton's compositions consisted of muscular gestures arranged evenly across large surfaces.

Her daily gestures of kindness to friends, family, and total strangers were indicative of how she lived her life.

Other no-nos: drinking alcohol outside licensed premises or swearing and displaying rude gestures in public, the newspaper said.

Kinect allows the entire game to be played with simple hand gestures and voice, perfect even for the youngest kids.

Spirited brush gestures offer strong evidence of the.

The machine operator gestures to me to climb up and sit in front of the multi-coloured light panel.

He can kiss human actors, smile bashfully and make obscene hand gestures.

But his left-wing gestures also reflect the changing make-up of the party.

He gestures at a heap of green fishnet, tangled and cut.

It comes with multi-touch trackpad that supports gestures such as pinch and zoom.

Steps, gestures and characterizations fall away before the immediacy of her dancing.

The days of dramatic gestures by boy heroes are long over.

There are thumbpads on each side for mouse gestures and fingerprint security for up to five profiles.

Already apparent in these early pictures was her sharp eye for telling gestures and expressions.

Easter eggs may turn out to be similarly harmless gestures of vanity by the anonymous souls building the information age.

But once they got moving, their thrusting gestures recalled those of martial arts and suggested that life was dangerous.

But the dancers' stiff mannequin gestures seemed to have little to do with the suite of dances or with the score.

The men sit on chairs on one side of the room and fling out their arms in seemingly neutral gestures.

She was a zoologist and historian of human gestures in art.

They sit at a table, but each of their gestures is sensitively linked to the music.

Just as baby chimps learn to climb by aping their elders, so infants pick up words and gestures by copying parents.

Their footwork was sometimes tentative, their gestures cautious.

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Word Origin & History

gesture

c.1410, "manner of carrying the body," from M.L. gestura "bearing, behavior," from L. gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest). Restricted sense of "a movement of the body or a part of it" is from 1551; fig. sense of "action undertaken in good will to express feeling" is from 1916.

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"When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible."

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