Motioning

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    movement

    "F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of motion form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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movementmovementgesticulategesturemoveact

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""Well," said the shopkeeper, motioning for Dima to follow her to the cash register. "That'll be 3,000,000.99, then.""

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