Definition of "gesture" []

• A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech. (noun)
• The act of moving the limbs or body as an expression of thought or emphasis. (noun)
• An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of intention or attitude: sent flowers as a gesture of sympathy. (noun)
• To make gestures. (verb-intransitive)
• To show, express, or direct by gestures. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "; if gesture points to a variable, send its contents as keystrokes if (% gesture%)"
• "Emphasis in gesture is just as inartistic – and therefore ineffective – as emphasis in tone or language."
• "Massera served less than five years in prison before then-President Carlos Menem granted him and other coup leaders amnesty in what he called a gesture of reconciliation."