sign languages

noun

plural of sign language
as in signs

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  1. signs
  2. waves
  3. signals
  4. gesticulations
  5. gestures
Noun
  • Most dramatically, five of the bodies were hung on a highway bridge, their half-nude corpses displaying signs of torture — a macabre display that recalled the worst days of the Mexican drug wars.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
  • Institutions and governments must invest long before crises unfold and continue funding past initial signs of success to ensure complete and lasting transformation.
    — Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • This will become the third tropical system to send waves to California in about three weeks.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
  • Breaking waves will reach up to 10 feet tall at south and southwest-facing beaches and points, the agency said Saturday.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 25 July 2026
Definition of waves
Noun
  • Problems arise when people assume those same signals mean the same thing everywhere.
    — Deidre Popovich, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • Optasia runs roughly tens of millions of daily credit decisions through a stack of 200-plus machine-learning models that draw on thousands of alternative signals per user.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of signals
Noun
  • The performing community challenged that notion, tracing the scat-singing and gesticulations to earlier artists including Black jazz performer Baby Esther Jones and cabaret entertainer Florence Mills.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • But on a Sunday morning in July 1595, the groan of the heavy wooden door startled him from his gesticulations.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Definition of gesticulations
Noun
  • Modi’s gestures, pauses and mannerisms have been turned into viral edits that turn his own words into political jokes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
  • He gestures toward planes visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind the stage.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Definition of gestures
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