What's the difference between gesture and stereotypy?

Gesture


Definition:

  • (n.) Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
  • (n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.
  • (v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.
  • (v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (2) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
  • (3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
  • (4) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
  • (5) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
  • (6) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
  • (7) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
  • (8) Each vocal gesture creates each different vocal style.
  • (9) "In the same way as the camera tells a different story to reality, it's the same on stage; the gestures that might seem incredibly overblown in the moment are played out differently.
  • (10) There is no significant support for this unhelpful gesture made by ex-ministers."
  • (11) President Juan Manuel Santos said he valued the gesture from the Farc, but warned it was not enough.
  • (12) The study examined 40 adolescent parasuicides' reports of whether they expected to be rescued following parasuicide gestures.
  • (13) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
  • (14) At the time, he described his scientific quest by gesturing to the ocean: "We're just trying to figure out who fucking lives out there."
  • (15) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
  • (16) Significant right-hand asymmetry was found for gestures which depict or represent (motor primary movements,p less than .01) but not for nonrepresentational speech primacy movements.
  • (17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
  • (18) It’s a present from Putin,” joked another soldier, gesturing in the direction of the shelling.
  • (19) Mitchell is also pressuring Arab countries for gestures in response to an Israeli settlement freeze such as trade delegations or overflight rights.
  • (20) This gesture goes some way to acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses.

Stereotypy


Definition:

  • (n.) The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
  • (2) Increased intensity of stereotypy was observed reaching a maximum 14 days after frontal lobe damage.
  • (3) However, when mice pretreated with reserpine 24 h earlier were used, NPA was found to be 6.5 times more active in producing locomotor stimulation and 8.7 times more active in producing stereotypy than apomorphine.
  • (4) The action of the hormone was of the adaptive character and was determined by the initial intensity of stereotypy.
  • (5) However, the same treatment did not interfere with the intensity of stereotypy.
  • (6) Infusion of the mixed agonist dopamine (0, 2.0, 10.0, 20.0 micrograms in 0.5 microliter vehicle) into the ventrolateral striatum was found to elicit intense oral stereotypy.
  • (7) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
  • (8) those that were novel or required a greater number of responses), and when stereotypy was allowed to effect a delay in instructional demands.
  • (9) This hypothesis was tested by examining amphetamine-induced activity and stereotypy in social and isolated rats of both sexes in both the active and inactive phases of their diurnal activity cycle.
  • (10) In comparing amphetamine-induced stereotypy with PEA-induced stereotypy, we found that the alpha-adrenergic blocking agents phentolamine and phenoxybenzamine selectively antagonize PEA stereotypy, whereas the beta-adrenergic blocking agent propranolol fails to alter significantly stereotypies evoked by PEA or amphetamine administration.
  • (11) Both naloxone and naltrexone attenuated amphetamine and apomorphine stereotypy, while the effect of diprenorphine was different: it slightly attenuated the amphetamine stereotypy, but slightly potentiated the stereotypy induced by apomorphine.
  • (12) Also, the prior administration of D145 or amantadine inhibited the development of the biting components of apomorphine and d-amphetamine stereotypy.
  • (13) Patients with SIB and stereotypy had significantly higher morning levels of b-endorphin than the retarded controls.
  • (14) After a 7-day abstinence period, a challenge test with methamphetamine alone revealed supersensitivity of methamphetamine-sensitized rats to subsequent methamphetamine, whereas rats pretreated with repeated methamphetamine in combination with BMY 14802 exhibited no difference in the intensity of stereotypy from rats pretreated with repeated saline.
  • (15) Using factor analytic techniques, the five-factor structure of the parent data corresponded extremely well with the five factors originally obtained from staff ratings of mentally retarded inpatients (i.e., Irritability, Withdrawal, Hyperactivity, Stereotypies, and Inappropriate Speech).
  • (16) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
  • (17) Neither effect of apomorphine depended on the occurrence of motor stereotypy.
  • (18) The new compounds' ability to block apomorphine-induced stereotypies correlated with the affinity for the [3H]spiperone binding site.
  • (19) In contrast to its effects on striatal DA overflow, MK-801 potentiated the locomotor effects of m-AMPH without reducing stereotypy rating scores.
  • (20) The proportion of animals showing marked apomorphine-induced stereotypy did not change significantly in either group over time.

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