gesture

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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

motion | American Dictionary

motion
noun
us/ˈmoʊ·ʃən/

motionnoun (MOVEMENT)

[ C/U ]
the act or process of moving, or a particular movement:
[ U ]His range of motion was exactly equal on both sides.
[ C ]She moved her finger in a circular motion.

motionnoun (FORMAL REQUEST)

[ C ]
a formal request, usually one made, discussed, and voted on at a meeting:
[ + to infinitive ]Someone made a motion to increase the membership fee.
[ C ]
A motion is also a request made to a judge in court for something to happen.
 in motion
Something in motion is moving or operating or has started:
The alarm rang and suddenly everyone was in motion.
The governor’s request set in motion the process for receiving federal funds.
motion
verb[ always+ adv/prep ]
us/ˈmoʊ·ʃən/

motionverb[always + adv/prep] (SIGNAL)

to make a signal to someone, usually with your hand or head:
[ T ]He motioned me to sit down.
[ I ]I saw him motion to the man at the door.

motion | Business English

motion
noun[ C ]
 MEETINGSuk /ˈməʊʃən/us
a formal suggestion made, discussed, and voted on at a meeting:
introduce/make/propose a motionThey will propose a motion to move the vote to the evening of June 9.
approve/carry/pass a motionThe group unanimously passed a motion endorsing the designs.
defeat/reject a motion
put forward/table/adopt a motion

Examples of motion

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In the unbound state, motions of even larger amplitude are expected.
Such motions can always be represented as pure rotations, but around a mobile pole.
Dynamics is the abstract description of the state space itself, describing the entire set of possible motions that correspond to a type of event.
Consequently, tendencies for perceived circular or helical motions can hardly be based upon internalization of invariant environmental features.
He argued that the information needed for vision is available in the optic flow and in invariants of the flow under body motions.
The positions, motions, and shapes that are possible for an object depend on the kind of space within which that object is confined.
A particular example of this framework is his account of perceived curvilinear apparent motions.
The motions of the bodies can be represented as sequences of directed traces or trajectories through c-space.
The internal motions are those that involve no overall translation or rotation of the molecule.
The simplest possible choice is motions by matrix-vector products.
More important, he needs to perceive and interpret the motions of the objects around him.
Under some circumstances, these nonlinear states become unstable and lead to more complicated motions.
The eigensolution expansion is useful for general motions only for the case of a sphere which is considered here.
Interactions of suitable pairs of gravity waves in a shear flow are found to give rise to aperiodic or weakly periodic secondary motions.
In some enzymes, collective motions of the protein backbone appear to be important for substrate binding or product release.
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Collocations withmotion

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back-and-forth motion
This configuration also results in a smoother motion of the beam than the single-action engine, making it easier to convert its back-and-forthmotion into rotation.
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