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gesturelike
gesturelike
English
Adjective
gesturelike (comparative more gesturelike, superlative most gesturelike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
- 1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience
- Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity...
- 2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education
- ...DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment...
- 1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience