Translation of "geste" to English

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Dictionary translations for "geste"

le geste m noun Listen
pl. gestes
gesture [ˈdʒestʃə] (acte) Listen
L'acceptabilité d'un geste social dépend d'innombrables facteurs culturels.
The acceptability of a social gesture depends on innumerable cultural factors.
movement [ˈmu:vmənt] (mouvement) Listen

Phrases with "geste" (13)

  1. beau geste - act of kindness
  2. du même geste - with the same gesture
  3. d'un geste agacé - crossly
  4. esquisser geste - make slight gesture
  5. geste de défi - defiant gesture
  6. geste de la main - wave
  7. joindre le geste à la parole - suit the action to the word
  8. pour la beauté du geste - for fine gesture
  9. se joindre le geste à la parole - suit the action to the word
  10. s'esquisser geste - make slight gesture
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Contexts with "geste"

L'acceptabilité d'un geste social dépend d'innombrables facteurs culturels. The acceptability of a social gesture depends on innumerable cultural factors.
Comme l’eau, comme le gaz, comme le courant électrique viennent de loin dans nos demeures répondre à nos besoins moyennant un effort quasi nul, ainsi serons-nous alimentés d’images visuelles ou auditives, naissant et s’évanouissant au moindre geste, presque à un signe. Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
Condillac, avec le sensationnalisme, révolutionna le concept de l'esprit, faisant du langage et du geste les précurseurs des idées, faisant voler en éclats la conception de Locke du langage comme simple médium passif. Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.
Nous communiquions ensemble par gestes. We communicated with each other by gesture.
Use-t-on de ces gestes aux USA ? Are these gestures used in the USA?
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