gesticulate, gesture, motion
(verb) show, express or direct through movement; “He gestured his desire to leave”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gesticulate (third-person singular simple present gesticulates, present participle gesticulating, simple past and past participle gesticulated)
(intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
(transitive) To say or express through gestures.
• "...the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards." Irish Times, December 6, 2004
Source: Wiktionary
Ges*tic"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gesticulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gesticulating.] Etym: [L. gesticulatus, p. p. of gesticulari to gesticulate, fr. gesticulus a mimic gesture, gesticulation, dim. of gestus gesture, fr. gerere, gestum, to bear, carry, peform. See Gestic.]
Definition: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. Sir T. Herbert.
Ges*tic"u*late, v. t.
Definition: To represent by gesture; to act. [R.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
