What's the difference between gesticulate and testiculate?
Gesticulate
Definition:
(v. i.) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
(v. t.) To represent by gesture; to act.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(2) Here's Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that.
(3) I gesticulate too much when I'm talking and look at the passenger when I'm doing so rather than at the road.
(4) 90+2 min: Shane Smeltz swears at the linesman while gesticulating furiously after being denied a much-needed corner.
(5) Not that I am claiming they all had fluent Irish - far from it - but they were willing to engage with me, to string together the few stray words of school Irish that arose from the darkest recesses of their minds, or else to try to decipher my miming and mad gesticulation.
(6) I learned about how important everyone’s vote is and just how special it is to live in a country where that is available to us,” Beydoun said, her hands gesticulating like a future stateswoman.
(7) The crowd gathers around the polling station officials, gesticulating angrily.
(8) In an intensive videotape analysis of 10 psychotherapy sessions, the body positions and gesticulation patterns of the client were examined in relation to changes in her verbal behavior.
(9) The active phase was dominated by coma or confusion and by abnormal movements, including disordered gesticulation and attacks of orofacial dyskinesia or limb dystonia associated with permanent rigidity and culminating in opisthotonic posturing.
(10) As Jones, not a player given to complaint about physical clashes, gesticulated urgently for help, Klinsmann grimaced.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An unidentified British jihadi can be heard in this audio clip from the video released on Sunday by Isis Gesticulating in a manner similar to that used by Emwazi , who was also known as Jihadi John, the unnamed terrorist repeatedly waves a gun at the camera as he references British airstrikes in Syria.
(12) DM: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is playing the stoic holding role, refusing to budge and occasionally gesticulating wildly at the referee, although never actually getting into the danger zone at the forefront of the action.
(13) Sherwood, who is set to leave Tottenham at the end of the season, was gesticulating and interacting with supporters with renewed vigour and enthusiasm throughout the game.
(14) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
(15) The main image of the night will be of Romney, eyes alight, gesticulating from the podium with a rarely seen passion, while Obama, playing into his image as professorial, delivered most of his answers with his head down.
(16) Then another group of four or five would come up, and they’d gesticulate in various directions and send them off again.” The men occasionally paused to take selfies on their mobiles, she said, adding that they wore “sports chic” or “the type of clothing rappers might wear – smart trainers, baseball caps”.
(17) I’ve thought about writing novels in the past, and I’ve always been blocked by the fact that I’m not particularly deep or wise or anything else – and what really helped to unblock it was [the idea that] you can write a light, frothy entertainment that’s got a certain tone, and if you hold the tone all the way through, you’ve got a book.” On tape, later, Marr’s own tone – authoritative, quick, clear, offering just enough to obscure what he doesn’t want to give away – is the same as always, but it is striking how different he seems in person from the familiar figure on the TV news, gesticulating enthusiastically in front of the palace of Westminster, riding waves of complex and entertaining metaphors.
(18) You're trained to gesticulate while you talk (it's meant to make you sound more convincing) so everyone's walking round like politicians.
(19) The client's gesticulation ratings were not related significantly to the Experiencing Scale ratings, but clinically interesting relationships between gesticulation patterns and verbal content were noted.
(20) Dr Samuel Johnson was noted by his friends to have almost constant tics and gesticulations, which startled those who met him for the first time.
Testiculate
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid.
(a.) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis.
Example Sentences:
(1) These effects were temporary, spermatogenesis and testiculer weight recovered 50 days after treatment.
(2) The fatty acid delta 6 desaturation capacity of testicules microsomes was increased.
(3) The mean weight of the testicules in controls, alcoholics, and patients with cirrhosis was 17.58, 16.49, and 13.25 g, respectively, the mean volume was 16.37, 15.34, and 12.21 ml, respectively, the value of the index X was 2.47, 2.52, and 1.97, respectively, the testicular length was 5.05, 4.08, and 3.61 cm, respectively, the width was 2.93, 2.87, and 2.70 cm, respectively.