Beckon vs Gesticulate - What's the difference?
beckon | gesticulate |
(ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
To say or express through gestures.
* "...the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate . Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards." Irish Times , December 6, 2004
As verbs the difference between beckon and gesticulate
is that beckon is to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer while gesticulate is to make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.As a noun beckon
is a sign made without words; a beck.beckon
English
Verb
(en verb)- His distant friends, he beckons near.
- It beckons you to go away with it.