different between gesture vs carriage

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin gestura (“a mode of action”), from Latin gerere (“to bear, reflexive bear oneself, behave, act”), past participle gestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??est???/, /?d??s.t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??s.t??/, /?d??s.t??/

Noun

gesture (plural gestures)

1. A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.

   The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.

   This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures.
2. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.

   We took flowers as a gesture of sympathy.
3. (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

Related terms

• countergesture
• gesticulate
• gesticulation
• gesticulative
• gestural
• gestureless
• gesturelike

Translations

Verb

gesture (third-person singular simple present gestures, present participle gesturing, simple past and past participle gestured)

1. (intransitive) To make a gesture or gestures.

   My dad said to never gesture with my hands when I talk.

   Never gesture at someone with a middle finger.

2. (transitive) To express something by a gesture or gestures.

   He gestured his disgust.

3. (transitive) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

Synonyms

• ((intransitive) make a gesture): gesticulate

Hyponyms

• ((intransitive) make a gesture): beckon

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Gestures

Further reading

• gesture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gesture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Alemannic German

Adjective

gesture

1. Alternative form of gesturm

Latin

Participle

gest?re

1. vocative masculine singular of gest?rus

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages