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 gesturing

gesturing

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

It was a strong illustration of the young men being cut short when gesturing to express themselves, as their failed utterances filled the stage.
Listing, drawing, and gesturing in design: a study of the use of shared workspaces by design teams.
The quantity, type, and manner of gesturing vary with age, social conditions, activity, and the subject's wishes.
On the contrary, speech is the normal means of linguistic communication across the entire human species, with gesturing always being ancillary.
Memory, melancholy and delusion made sense of this episode by gesturing to an imagined event preparatory or external to the operatic plot.
They found that parental gesturing increases children's ability to attend to the focal object at both ages.
At times much of the body moves and at other times it is just a head nodding or a hand gesturing.
There is no point in gesturing if one does not have a clear concept of cause and effect.
The author's ample use of pictures of participants gesturing along with excerpts of narratives is an excellent feature of this volume.
Large positive difference scores indicated greater incidence of looking and gesturing to the caregiver in the person-present relative to the person-absent condition.
Throughout the 'neutral-neutral ' periods, people were moving, gesturing, nodding their heads, observing and acknowledging one another, listening and reading.
Only the right hand is engaged in gesturing.
He speaks calmly, but firmly, gesturing as he does to underline points.
Language is the ongoing process of imagining, gesturing, and speaking.
The stand also inhibited the child from showing the experimenter the pictures, pointing or gesturing to the characters.
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