to gesture
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3.0
- verb
- /ˈdʒɛstʃər/
:
gesticular
- The teacher gestured with her hand to encourage the students to participate.
- gestured while speaking
- gestured while saying
- gesturing with hands
You've just, you've just gestured in a regal fashion.
- You've just, you've just gestured in a regal fashion.
- You can't really explain this with just gesturing to income inequality.
- We, we gesture all of us, even when we think we don't.
- I mean, you can see in my hands, I'm gesturing, let it stand.
- I acted out Rupert Murdoch telling someone to move to the left, but I gestured to the right.
- But if you speed it up, it starts to just gesturing, just starts to register as anxious body language.
- And some species are more advanced in these circuits whether it's sound or gesturing with hands and some or less advanced.
- The important thing was not to propose an answer of the city's unique meaning, but to gesture toward the question nonetheless.
- I'm also not lying almost perhaps I'm, you know, gesturing through my not saying something.
- Well, you actually gestured like, oh, I'll pull my like what?
Examples
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"The light might wake someone up," Ice Fire said, gesturing to the sleeping bundles around them.
Fiction book (1990) -
"He's over there," he said and gestured with his head toward the tables on the left.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Can you go out in the hall with that thing?" I gestured at the monitor.
Fiction book (1990) -
Although she was not fluent in English, she was able to gesture effectively to communicate with the class.
Academic text (2004) -
A tall figure walks steadily in her direction, gesturing for her to come close.
Academic text (2006) -
"Sit down, Lynn," Jilly invited, and gestured toward a flat rock within her magic circle.
Fiction book (1990) -
"All these books," he says, gesturing toward the shelves, "they're full of answers."
Academic text (1996) -
As they passed England's players and families, they cheered and gestured and chanted.
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Occasionally, Mr. Hershe Baum gestures or says something to invite passersby to visit the store.
Academic text (2007) -
The priest looked over to Hawthorne and smiled, gesturing for Sadler to be spared.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
To show or direct attention to something
584
1.0
To move your hand back and forth to greet or get attention
482
1.0
To move a part of the body to show a feeling or idea
284
1.9
Move your head from side to side to show you do not agree
141
3.0
To give information to someone using a gesture or sign
42
1.0
Raise your hand and move it to get someone's attention
35
2.1
To move your hand or head to show someone something
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7.6
Move hands or arms when speaking to show an idea
You move your hands or arms while talking to show feelings
Send information using signals or movements like nods and waves
Compounds
How Expressive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gesture comes from the Latin gestus and gerere, meaning 'to carry' or 'to do', and is the same root as suggest. To gesture is to make a movement that 'carries' a message or request without using words.