motion

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Gestures & gesturing
air punch
air quotes
beckon
bird
blow someone a kissphrase
flag something/someone down
flip
flip someone off
flip/give someone the birdidiom
flourish
non-linguistic
non-verbal
non-verbally
peace sign
pump someone's handidiom
shake
signing
snap
tongue
wink

Examples of gestured

gestured

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The pencil gestured towards a refusal to replace the others' words with one's own.
In particular, infants looked and gestured to their caregiver more frequently in the person-present than person-absent condition.
Interestingly, when indicating the location of the now desiccated lagunas, the workman gestured toward the area of the platform and causeway.
Therefore, as noted above, the bilinguals might have gestured more than the monolinguals because of their bilingualism.
Yet, he only half-heartedly gestured through the period to another resource that could have disciplined them and given them incentives for cooperation.
Instrumental music had sung, danced, drawn pictures and characters (22); now it 'gestured' in direct metaphorical strokes.
Sign languages have hierarchical structure identical to that of spoken languages despite the fact they are gestured and watched.
There are wider horizons which the book could have helpfully gestured towards.
She jumped up and gestured, to stress how horrible were her experiences.
There was a significant difference in the overall rate of gestures: both bilingual groups gestured more than monolingual participants.
Not surprisingly, all of the quadruplets showed an initial preference for gestured expression and an eventual transition to predominantly verbal utterances.
Although sometimes obscured, the necessary complexity of this relation is certainly gestured towards within the volume.
The vocabulary modelling procedure was more limited than traditional early language interventions but not unlike those interventions in use of multiple exemplars, high redundancy, and gestured input.
The purpose of these novel sessions was to assess generalization of learned targets to untrained exemplars in the absence of the scaffolding provided by gestured input.
That is, flowing down the other side cannot be gestured against the photo in the way the speaker did to show the watershed visible in the photo.
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