gesticulate
to communicate with hand movements
TRANSLATION
gesticulate = gestikulieren, Gesten machen --- GOOGLE INDEX gesticulate: approximately 500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Last year, Italy’s highest court ruled that a man who inadvertently struck an 80-year-old woman while GESTICULATING in a piazza in the southern region of Puglia was liable for civil damages.
(New York Times)
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Already a lost art at the London Stock Exchange, open-outcry trading is where dealers shout and GESTICULATE using old-fashioned dealing calls and gestures.
(BBC News)
(New York Times)
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Already a lost art at the London Stock Exchange, open-outcry trading is where dealers shout and GESTICULATE using old-fashioned dealing calls and gestures.
(BBC News)
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gesticulate
verb
- to make movements with your hands or arms, to express something or to emphasize what you are saying
noun
gesticulation
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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Gesticulate is from the Latin gesticulatus, past participle of gesticulari (to gesture, mimic) and from gesticulus (a mimicking gesture), a diminutive of gestus (gesture, carriage, posture).
Scientists have discovered why we sometimes use our hands to express ourselves. The answer is fish. More precisely, an unexpected link between hand-waving humans and fish has been discovered. Control of speech and hand movements is closely linked in the brain and can be tracked through mammals and birds all the way back to fish.
Their ancestral roots lie in a single region of the fish hindbrain, a study has shown. According to one of the scientists involved in the research, although both fins and forelimbs are mainly used for locomotion, they also functioned in social communication to make "non-vocal sonic signals" and relay information by gesturing. For instance, some fish species vibrate their pectoral fins rapidly to communicate, and some vibrate a muscle in a swim bladder, acting similar to our own vocal chords.
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SYNONYMS
gesture, motion, signal, wave
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verb
- to make movements with your hands or arms, to express something or to emphasize what you are saying
noun
gesticulation
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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Gesticulate is from the Latin gesticulatus, past participle of gesticulari (to gesture, mimic) and from gesticulus (a mimicking gesture), a diminutive of gestus (gesture, carriage, posture).
Scientists have discovered why we sometimes use our hands to express ourselves. The answer is fish. More precisely, an unexpected link between hand-waving humans and fish has been discovered. Control of speech and hand movements is closely linked in the brain and can be tracked through mammals and birds all the way back to fish.
Their ancestral roots lie in a single region of the fish hindbrain, a study has shown. According to one of the scientists involved in the research, although both fins and forelimbs are mainly used for locomotion, they also functioned in social communication to make "non-vocal sonic signals" and relay information by gesturing. For instance, some fish species vibrate their pectoral fins rapidly to communicate, and some vibrate a muscle in a swim bladder, acting similar to our own vocal chords.
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SYNONYMS
gesture, motion, signal, wave
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I just gesticulated to the waiter that we want to pay."
