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"GESTURES" is a plural of: gesture. |
Date "GESTURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Movement of a part of the body for the purpose of communication. (references) |
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Crosswords: GESTURES |
| English words defined with "GESTURES": dead-on, Dumb show ♦ fingerspell ♦ Gestic, gesticulating, Gesticulatory, Gestureless, Gesturement ♦ hoofing ♦ mime, Mimical ♦ pantomime, provocative ♦ reenforcement, reinforcement ♦ salute, sign language, signing, step dancing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GESTURES": asemia, associate director ♦ Bardesanists ♦ Communication Methods, Total ♦ Deputy ♦ Opera ♦ pointing device, production assistant, production coordinator, PROGRAM ASSISTANT ♦ revolution ♦ Signs ♦ TEACHER, HEARING IMPAIRED. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GESTURES": Gesturement ♦ Subsannation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) Gesture! They can make gestures! Let them make one for Pesquet, or Jacques! (The Train; writing credit: Rose Vall; Franklin Coen) | |
Lyrics | Empty gestures wile away the hours (Without Love; performing artist: Donna Lewis) | |
Clever | Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best. (references; author: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gestures (2001) Bach Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures (1997) Chambers: Tracks & Gestures (1982) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Large "M." Tonsured master, holding book, gestures towards one of two tonsured students (as if determining a dispute?). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Woodrow Wilson gestures toward "legislation" woodpile to Congress holding an ax. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Men fighting with daggers & sword while two women stand to side and woman gestures from stairs. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He made gestures and signs which signified denial, or he gazed at the ceiling. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Bearded workmen with pious faces were guiding a canopy out through a sidedoor, the sacristan aiding them with quiet gestures and words. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And they made elaborate acquaintanceship gestures. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The person may wander aimlessly or make alarming or unusual gestures. (references) | |
This allows a person with a hearing impairment to observe facial expressions, gestures, and lip and body movements that provide communication clues. (references) | ||
A child experiencing a stroke may have seizures, a sudden loss of speech, a loss of expressive language (including body language and gestures), hemiparesis (weakness on one side of the body), hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body), dysarthria (impairment of speech), convulsions, headache, or fever. (references) | ||
Economic History | United Kingdom | By the mid-1990s, gestures toward peace encouraged by successive British governments and by President Clinton began to open the door for restored local government in Northern Ireland. (references) |
Burma | While both sides have held the substance of this dialogue in strictest confidence, there have been a number of good will gestures, including the release of some political prisoners and a halt to the vicious attacks on Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD by the government-owned press. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | In a December 2000 press conference in La Realidad, Chiapas, the EZLN's Subcommander Marcos stated that President Fox's initial gestures to resolve the conflict in Chiapas were encouraging and welcomed the choice of Luis H. Alvarez as his Chiapas Peace Coordinator. (references) |
Minorities | Iran | According to the UNSR, President Khatami, who won an overwhelming percentage of the Kurdish vote in the recent Presidential election, has made several conciliatory gestures to the Kurdish population. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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| "GESTURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.39% of the time. "GESTURES" is used about 534 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.39% | 504 | 11,979 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.42% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 534 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GESTURES": given to extravagant gestures. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "GESTURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ubestemmelig gestikulation (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vermindering van de nauwkeurigheid van de bewegingen (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liike-epätarkkuus (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | diminution de la précision des mouvements (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gesten, Gebärden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλλειψη ακρίβειας των κινήσεων (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mimica (mime, mimicry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仕種 (acting, behavior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しぐさ (acting, action, bearing, behavior, gesture, treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esturesgay acionados. (various references) exagerado (a bit thick, aggrandized, emotional, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, fulsome, given to extravagant gestures, grandiose, highly-colored, highly-coloured, inflated, inordinate, intense, jazzy, overdemonstrative, overdone, overdressed, overstated, peculiar, steep, theatrical), disminución de la precisión de los movimientos (insufficiently precise gestures). (various references) munudio (gesticulate, make gestures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hypocrisi, hypocrita, hypocritae, hypocritam, hypocritas, hypocritis. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"GESTURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gestare, gestuer, gisburne, gusture. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GESTURES" (pronounced je"skherz) |
| 4 | -s kh er z | fixtures, mixtures, pastures, postures, textures. |
| 3 | -kh er z | adventures, architectures, benchers, bleachers, butchers, captures, caricatures, catchers, conjectures, creatures, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, features, forfeitures, fractures, futures, indentures, infrastructures, junctures, launchers, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, miniatures, misadventures, natures, nurtures, pictures, pinchers, pitchers, poachers, preachers, punctures, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, restructures, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, switchers, teachers, temperatures, tinctures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: gesture, guesser. | |
-2 letters: egests, egress, egrets, esters, estrus, geests, gestes, greets, guests, gusset, reests, resets, retuse, reuses, russet, segues, serest, serges, steers, steres, surest, surges, tusser. | |
-3 letters: egers, egest, egret, erses, ester, geest, geste, gests, grees, greet, grues, guess, guest, gusts, reest, reges, reset, rests, reuse, ruses, rusts, seers, segue, seres, serge, steer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gesturers, suggester. | |
+2 letters: grotesques, gruesomest, otherguess, suggesters. | |
+3 letters: greenstuffs, subterfuges, superagents, superegoist. | |
+4 letters: daughterless, gratefulness, groundsheets, guttersnipes, legislatures, sequestering, slaughterers, suffragettes, superegoists, turgescences, turgidnesses. | |
+5 letters: extinguishers, forgetfulness, grotesqueness, grotesqueries, regretfulness, righteousness, secretagogues, sequestrating, staggerbushes, stegosauruses, stepdaughters, subcategories, superstrength, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, uprightnesses. | |
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