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GESTICULATORY

Definition: GESTICULATORY

GESTICULATORY

Adjective

1. Representing by, or belonging to, gestures.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Usage Frequency: GESTICULATORY

"GESTICULATORY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GESTICULATORY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GESTICULATORY

Language Translations for "GESTICULATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Swedish

  

gestukilerande. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งแส"งท่าทาง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

jestli, jestlerle ifade eden. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khoa tay múa chân (gesticulation, gesticulative). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "GESTICULATORY"

Words rhyming with "GESTICULATORY" (pronounced 'Ges*tic"u*la*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GESTICULATORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-o-r-s-t-t-u-y"

-1 letter: gesticulator.

-2 letters: gustatorily.

-3 letters: courtliest, curtilages, glycosuria, graciously, graticules, secularity, staurolite, testicular, trialogues.

-4 letters: astrocyte, austerity, autolytic, autotelic, cogitates, cottagers, cryolites, curtilage, graticule, groutiest, gustatory, ligatures, literatus, loricates, ocularist, outglares, royalties, rusticate, sclerotia, sectorial, strategic, suctorial, tetralogy, toreutics, trialogue, tutorages, tutorials, urticates.

-5 letters: acolytes, aglitter, agouties, agrestic, altruist, articles, astutely, atrocity, auricles, autolyse, calories, calottes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GESTICULATORY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 53 54 49 43 55 4C 41 54 4F 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .    ...    -    ..    -.-.    ..-    .-..    .-    -    ---    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 0053 0054 0049 0043 0055 004C 0041 0054 004F 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41395354433755463554495259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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