different between gesticulation vs signalize

English

Etymology

From Middle French gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

gesticulation (countable and uncountable, plural gesticulations)

1. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion.
2. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 193):

     The breeze had died away and the tree was now quite motionless save when William's statements required forcible gesticulations, which made it sway in a gentle nodding manner as though it were confirming every word the old sage uttered.

3. (dated) An odd or fanciful motion.

Related terms

• gesticulate
• gesticulative
• gesture
• gestural

Translations

Anagrams

• unegotistical

French

Etymology

gesticuler +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

gesticulation f (plural gesticulations)

1. gesticulation

English

Etymology

From signal +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??n?la?z/

Verb

signalize (third-person singular simple present signalizes, present participle signalizing, simple past and past participle signalized)

1. (transitive, now rare) To distinguish, to make noteworthy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 121:

     [T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […] .

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

     It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.

2. (transitive, now rare) To display or make known (a quality, attribute etc.); to call attention to. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 68:

     He likewise pretended to ridicule the use of fire-arms, which confounded all the distinctions of skill and address, and deprived a combatant of the opportunity of signalizing his personal prowess.

3. (transitive, now rare) To point out; to take special note of. [from 17th c.]
   • 1956, Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I.5:

     This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history.

4. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To communicate with by means of a signal. [from 19th c.]

   a ship signalizes its consort

5. (transitive) To indicate; to be a sign of. [from 19th c.]
   • 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

     And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment […]

6. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• signalization