different between gesture vs signifying

gesture

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

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signifying

English

Verb

signifying

  1. present participle of signify
    • Macbeth (c. 1603), Act V, Scene V:
      Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
      that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
      and then is heard no more: it is a tale
      told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
      signifying nothing.

Noun

signifying (plural signifyings)

  1. signification
    • 1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning
      For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.

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