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Gesture vs Behave - What's the difference?

gesture | behave |

As verbs the difference between gesture and behave

is that gesture is to make a gesture or gestures while behave is (label) to conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.

As a noun gesture

is a motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.

gesture

Noun

(en noun)
  • A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.
  • The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.
    This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures .
  • * Milton
  • Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.
  • An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.
  • We took flowers as a gesture of sympathy.
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations.

    Verb

  • To make a gesture or gestures.
  • My dad said to never gesture with my hands when I talk.
    Never gesture at someone with a middle finger.
  • To express something by a gesture or gestures.
  • He gestured his disgust.
  • To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
  • * Hooker
  • It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

    Synonyms

    * gesticulate

    Hyponyms

    * beckon

    See also

    *

    behave

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • * Bible, ii. 21
  • those that behaved themselves manfully
  • (label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
  • who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
  • (label) To act in a polite or proper way.
  • Derived terms

    * behave oneself