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  2. Hand rubbing - Wikipedia

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    Hand rubbing is a gesture that conveys in many cultures either that one has a feeling of excited expectation, or that one is simply cold. [1] In Ekman and Friesen's 1969 classification system for gestures, hand-rubbing as an indication of coldness is an emblem intentional gesture that could equally well be verbalized.

  3. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Hand-rubbing, rubbing both hands palms together along the fingers' direction may mean that one is expecting or anticipating something or that one feels cold. U.S. servicemen surrendering with raised hands during the Battle of Corregidor. Hands up is a gesture expressing military surrender by lifting both hands. This may have originated with the ...

  4. Gestures in language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    A good example of manual signing is American Sign Language (ASL)–when individuals communicate via ASL, their signs have meanings that are equivalent to words (e.g., two people communicating using ASL both understand that forming a fist with your right hand and rotating this fist using clockwise motions on the chest carries the lexical meaning ...

  5. Giving dap - Wikipedia

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    Giving dap, dapping, or dabbing typically involves handshaking (often by hooking fingers), pound hugging, fist pounding, or chest or fist bumping. [ 1 ] Giving dap can refer to presenting many kinds of positive nonverbal communication between two people, ranging from a brief moment of simple bodily contact to a complicated routine of hand slaps ...

  6. Profanity in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    This sign creates the meaning of "piss off" by combining the sign for "penis/piss" and abbreviating "O-F-F" by using simply one "F". [citation needed] "Fuck" as a sexual connotation is signed by taking two v-shaped hands and tapping them twice (dominant hand on top) to emulate two people's legs. This sign also means "sex".

  7. Vulcan salute - Wikipedia

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    A page by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, with photos and diagrams of how the Salute forms the Hebrew letter Shin, the use of the Blessing Hands gesture on Jewish gravestones and jewelry, etc. Yiddish Book Center (February 27, 2015). "Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting". Wexler Oral History Project. Remembering Leonard Nimoy. The New York Times.

  8. A Body Language Expert Says There's a Deeper Meaning to ... - AOL

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    Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce made two back-to-back public appearances over the weekend, both of which involved them holding hands. Here they are on Saturday night at the SNL after-party:

  9. Plains Indian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    The hands are crossed or folded over the lower stomach if standing, or in the lap if sitting. Phrase-final juncture. The hands move partway towards the paragraph-final juncture position but recoil before reaching it. Two variants have the hands clasped near the chest or, if sitting, the palms lightly touched to the thighs, though this variant ...