significant gesture
1significant — adj. 1 having a meaning; indicative. 2 having an unstated or secret meaning; suggestive (refused it with a significant gesture). 3 noteworthy; important; consequential (a significant figure in history). 4 Statistics of or relating to the… …
2Significant symbols — In sociology, a significant symbol is a gesture (usually a vocal gesture) that calls out in the individual making the gesture the same (i.e., functionally identical) response that is called out in others to whom the gesture is directed (Mind,… …
3significant — [[t]sɪgnɪ̱fɪkənt[/t]] ♦♦ 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A significant amount or effect is large enough to be important or affect a situation to a noticeable degree. Most 11 year olds are not encouraged to develop reading skills; a small but significant …
4gesture — Part of George Herbert Mead s theory of the self . A gesture is the act of an organism which stimulates a response on the part of other organisms: a dog growling may provoke another dog to growl, and a ‘conversation of gestures’ ensues. Such… …
5significant symbol — Sociol. a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning. * * * …
6gesture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. motion, signal, gesticulation. v. i. wave, signal, nod, beckon. See indication. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A deliberately significant motion] Syn. gesticulation, indication, signal, movement; see sign 1 …
7gesture — n. & v. n. 1 a significant movement of a limb or the body. 2 the use of such movements esp. to convey feeling or as a rhetorical device. 3 an action to evoke a response or convey intention, usu. friendly. v.tr. & intr. gesticulate. Derivatives:… …
8significant symbol — Sociol. a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning …
9Musical gesture — Tonic and dominant in C  Play (help …
10Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
