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Describing movement showing some combination of rage and lust
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gestural
Word definitions for gestural in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from gesture + -al (1). Related: Gesturally .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of the language of the deaf [syn: sign(a) , signed , sign-language(a) ] being other than verbal communication; "the study of gestural communication"; "art like gesture is a form of nonverbal expression" [syn: nonverbal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gestural \Ges"tur*al\, a. Relating to gesture.
Usage examples of gestural.
There is by now a vast library of described and filmed conversations, employing Ameslan and other gestural languages, with Washoe, Lucy, Lana and other chimpanzees studied by the Gardners and others.
In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages.
What sort of culture, what kind of oral tradition would chimpanzees establish after a few hundred or a few thousand years of communal use of a complex gestural language?
In teaching gestural language to the chimpanzees, we are beginning a belated attempt to make amends.
However, both the repertoire of ideas and the speed with which ideas can be communicated in gestural or sign languages is limited.