gesture
physicalize
gesticulation
gestic
tactilize
handfeel
motion
touching
gesticulate
tactition
contact
physical contact
affetti
seesaw
venitive
perceptuomotor
kinaesthesia
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
affection
muscle sense
cheirokinesthesia
jog
kinesthesia
sense of movement
kinesthetics
haptic
stoke
claw
tactile
reach out
raise one's hand
feel one's way
reach
lift a finger
intergestural
tactus
climb
stroke
thigmokinesis
tact
expression
taction
struggle
adjacency
jarring
contiguousness
contiguity
gesturing
exhibition
sign language
signing
haptically
object
waffle
kinesia
harmonious
touch
mood
full-handed
pass
prehension
handle
stirring
tactually
haptics
inspiration
haptotropic
expressive
put one's hand up
tactive
strike out
utterability
move down
feely
uphanded
animate
affected
sign
rub up against
proprioception
flow
sensation
wriggle
grab
rash
touch oneself
touchingness
lay hands on
gushing
take someone's breath away
gestic
venitive
perceptuomotor
haptic
tactile
intergestural
harmonious
full-handed
haptotropic
expressive
tactive
feely
uphanded
affected
haptically
tactually
gesture
gesticulation
handfeel
touching
tactition
contact
physical contact
affetti
seesaw
kinaesthesia
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
affection
muscle sense
cheirokinesthesia
kinesthesia
sense of movement
kinesthetics
tactus
stroke
thigmokinesis
tact
expression
taction
struggle
adjacency
jarring
contiguousness
contiguity
gesturing
exhibition
sign language
signing
object
kinesia
touch
mood
pass
prehension
stirring
haptics
inspiration
utterability
proprioception
flow
sensation
touchingness
gushing
physicalize
tactilize
motion
gesticulate
gesture
jog
stoke
claw
reach out
raise one's hand
feel one's way
reach
lift a finger
climb
waffle
handle
put one's hand up
strike out
move down
animate
sign
rub up against
wriggle
grab
rash
touch oneself
lay hands on
take someone's breath away
verb
- To gesture indicating a desired movement.
- To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
- To make a proposal; to offer plans.
noun
- A change from one place to another.
- A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- A state of progression from one place to another.
- from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- A change of position with respect to time.
- A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
noun
- the act of touching physically
- close interaction
- the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- a channel for communication between groups
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
- a communicative interaction
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
verb
noun
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
- An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
verb
adj
noun
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment.
verb
- To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
- To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- To shake, stir or rouse.
- To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
- To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
noun
verb
- To move with one's fingertips.
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
verb
- move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- be in or establish communication with
- to gain with effort
- to extend as far as
- reach a goal
- place into the hands or custody of
- to exert much effort or energy
noun
adj
noun
verb
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- to jump high
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- to practise the sport of climbing
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
noun
noun
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
noun
- The sense of touch; feeling.
- The stroke in beating time.
- Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
- A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
verb
noun
- The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
- A specific blend of whisky.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
- The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out.
- A particular way of phrasing an idea.
- A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- The tone of voice or sound in music.
- emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader
noun
- A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.
- An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
- A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
- A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.
- A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shameful exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
- A large-scale public showing of objects or products.
noun
- A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
- An instantiation of a class or structure.
- An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
- Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
- A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
- The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
verb
verb
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- To smash (something).
- Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
noun
- In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
noun
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A mental or emotional state, composure.
- A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
- Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
- A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
- A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
- A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
intj
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
verb
- To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
- To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
- To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
- To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
- To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
- To use the hands.
- To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
- To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
- To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
- To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
- To manage, control, or direct.
noun
- The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
- A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
- A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
- The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
- The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
- An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
- A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
- A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
- A point, an extremity of land.
- The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
- A name, nickname or pseudonym.
- A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
noun
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
verb
- To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- To write (one's name) as a signature.
- To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- To determine the sign of
- To cross oneself.
- To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- To write one's signature.
- To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- To use sign language.
- To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- To communicate using a gesture or signal.
noun
- An astrological sign.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- Sign language in general.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A perceptible (e.g. visible) indication.
- A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- An omen.
- Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
noun
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A morass or marsh.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
verb
- To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- To hang loosely and wave.
- To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- To allow (a liquid) to flow.
- To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- To proceed; to issue forth.
- To cover with varnish.
verb
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To consume something quickly.
- To take the opportunity of.
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
verb
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
adj
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
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tuberculosis
to be taken aback
one's birthplace
ages
nostalgia
drain
puzzling
notion
oblong
avaricious
heroine
tally
salve
secret.
seam
plague
various