gesturing
present participle ofgesture
| 单词 | gesturing |
| 释义 | gesturing present participle ofgesture gesture verb[I] uk/ˈdʒes.tʃər/us/ˈdʒes.tʃɚ/C2 to use a gesture toexpressoremphasizesomething: When heaskedwhere thechildrenwere, she gesturedvaguelyin thedirectionof thebeach. He made noanswerbutwalkedon, gesturingformetofollow. Synonyms gesticulateformal motion Gestures & gesturing
Examplesofgesturinggesturing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It was a strong illustration of the young men being cut short whengesturingto express themselves, as their failed utterances filled the stage. From theCambridge English Corpus Listing, drawing, andgesturingin design: a study of the use of shared workspaces by design teams. From theCambridge English Corpus The quantity, type, and manner ofgesturingvary with age, social conditions, activity, and the subject's wishes. From theCambridge English Corpus On the contrary, speech is the normal means of linguistic communication across the entire human species, withgesturingalways being ancillary. From theCambridge English Corpus Memory, melancholy and delusion made sense of this episode bygesturingto an imagined event preparatory or external to the operatic plot. From theCambridge English Corpus They found that parentalgesturingincreases children's ability to attend to the focal object at both ages. From theCambridge English Corpus At times much of the body moves and at other times it is just a head nodding or a handgesturing. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no point ingesturingif one does not have a clear concept of cause and effect. From theCambridge English Corpus The author's ample use of pictures of participantsgesturingalong with excerpts of narratives is an excellent feature of this volume. From theCambridge English Corpus Large positive difference scores indicated greater incidence of looking andgesturingto the caregiver in the person-present relative to the person-absent condition. From theCambridge English Corpus Throughout the 'neutral-neutral ' periods, people were moving,gesturing, nodding their heads, observing and acknowledging one another, listening and reading. From theCambridge English Corpus Only the right hand is engaged ingesturing. From theCambridge English Corpus He speaks calmly, but firmly,gesturingas he does to underline points. From theCambridge English Corpus Language is the ongoing process of imagining,gesturing, and speaking. From theCambridge English Corpus The stand also inhibited the child from showing the experimenter the pictures, pointing orgesturingto the characters. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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