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Definition: Gesticulating |
GesticulatingAdjective1. Making gestures while speaking; "her gesticulating hands and arms made words almost unnecessary". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gesticulating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Young man bursting through door of a printer's office to gesticulating printer.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man standing and gesticulating with pipe to seated man.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Irishman (?) gesticulating to German with tankard and pipe who has taken over yard while Uncle Sam argues with German (?) ruler about "extra-territoriality".Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old gentleman stepping out of horse-drawn carriage and gesticulating with pipe to laughing liverymen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Gesticulating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gesticulating" is used about 36 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gesticulating | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gesticulating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | gestikulierend. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | esticulatinggay | ||||
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"Gesticulating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gestaculating, guesticulating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: gesticulant. | |
-3 letters: austenitic. | |
-4 letters: anglicise, auntliest, cagelings, cingulate, clingiest, cuittling, cultigens, gainliest, gangliest, gauntlets, genitalic, gestating, guiltiest, inelastic, instigate, intitules, latticing, litigants, litigates, sciential, scuttling, situating, tangliest, tingliest, tunicates, uintaites. | |
-5 letters: acuities, agisting, alienist, alunites, anticult, autistic, cageling, canities, castling, catlings, ceilings, ciliates, cleating, cuittles, cultigen, cutinise, cutlines, cuttages, cuttings, cuttling, entastic, estating, eustatic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 73 74 69 63 75 6C 61 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . ... - .. -.-. ..- .-.. .- - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e s t i c u l a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063 0075 006C 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718586756987786786758073 |
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