| Main Entry: | gesture/gesticulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make signs, motions to communicate |
Synonyms: |
act out, flag, indicate, mime, pantomime, signal, signalize, use one's hands, use sign language, wave |
Antonyms: |
speak |
| Main Entry: | gesticulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pantomime |
Synonyms: |
gesture, motion, signal |
| Notes: | gesticulate and gesture are based on Latin gerere 'bear, carry, perform' and gesticulation is more exaggerated than a gesture, often involving flailing; originally, a person's gesture was their 'bearing' or the way they 'carried' themselves |
| Main Entry: | beckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call, signal, or lure |
Synonyms: |
allure, ask, attract, bid, coax, command, demand, draw, entice, gesticulate, gesture, invite, motion, nod, pull, sign, summon, tempt, wave |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gesture, direct |
Synonyms: |
beckon, flag, gesticulate, guide, invite, move, nod, sign, signal, signalize, wave |
Antonyms: |
be still |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | motion to another |
Synonyms: |
beckon, express, flag, gesticulate, gesture, indicate, motion, signal, signalize, signify, use sign language, wave |
| Main Entry: | signal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate; give a sign to |
Synonyms: |
beckon, communicate, flag, flash, gesticulate, gesture, motion, nod, semaphore, sign, signalize, warn, wave, wink |
| Main Entry: | wave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth; gesture |
Synonyms: |
beckon, billow, brandish, coil, curl, direct, falter, flap, flourish, flow, fluctuate, flutter, fly, gesticulate, indicate, motion, move to and fro, oscillate, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, seesaw, shake, sign, signal, stir, stream, surge, sway, swell, swing, swirl, swish, switch, tremble, twirl, twist, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, waver, whirl, wield, wigwag, wobble |
| Main Entry: | signalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gesture |
Synonyms: |
act out, flag, gesticulate, give the high sign, indicate, mime, motion, pantomime, sign*, signal, use one's hands, use sign language, wave |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
armorial, characteristic, connotative, curiological, demonstrative, denotable, denotative, diacritical, diagnostic, emblematic, exponential, indelible, indicated, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, jolloped, known by, marked, pantomimic, pathognomonic, pointed, recognizable by, representative, symbolic, symptomatic, typical
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| Concept: | [Successive change of place] Motion. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
motion, movement, move; going; unrest., stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis., step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit., restlessness (changeableness); mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.
-verbs
be in motion; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;., put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
-adjectives
moving; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless (changeable); nomadic; erratic.
-adverbs
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
-phrases
eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
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Antonyms: |
quiescence |
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