departing, excited, or attention-seeking manner by waving the hands, as in "friendly were the hand-waving crowds ..." (— Sinclair Lewis), which dates to the...
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waving. In Japan, hand waving while the palm is kept outward and near the face is a gesture used to display confusion or that the individual waving does...
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Shabbat candles (section Hand waving)
intervening period. Today, many Jewish women make an exaggerated motion, waving their hands in the air, when covering their eyes; there is no specific source...
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somewhat dull spikes seem more dangerous. Bearded dragons display a hand-waving gesture to show submission (most often when acknowledging another bearded...
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classic Office Space are expressive and given to anxious displays of hand waving. But here she articulates Justine's sad tales through a narration that's...
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involving restrictive and/or repetitive, nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand waving or head banging), that markedly interferes with normal activities or...
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Motorcycling greetings (redirect from Biker Wave)
the left hand side of the road, and so bikers will most commonly give each other a nod, rather than releasing the throttle to wave, or waving with the...
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Retrieved 13 April 2019. "Not Waving But Drowning". www.bigcountryinfo.com. Retrieved 21 June 2019. Stevie Smith reading "Not Waving But Drowning" (includes...
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Salute (redirect from Hand salute)
acknowledge the presence of another person, such as a tip of the hat or a hand wave to a friend or neighbor. Throughout history, military organizations have...
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jocular phrase used mainly in mathematics to refer to a specific form of hand-waving whereby one attempts to advance an argument by giving an argument loaded...
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fields rotate at a constant rate in a plane as the wave travels, either in the right-hand or in the left-hand direction. Light or other electromagnetic radiation...
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hand, some waves have envelopes which do not move at all such as standing waves (which are fundamental to music) and hydraulic jumps. A physical wave...
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The Baishou Dance or baishouwu (摆手舞, literally 'hand-waving dance') is a 500-year-old historic group dance of the Tujia, one of 55 ethnic minorities in...
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including the lines: "Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free / Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands." "Mother...
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Panamanian golden frog (redirect from Waving frog)
to socialize with other amphibians using sounds from the throat and hand-waving, like the semaphore motion used in courtship. The movements may be friendly...
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Circular polarization (category Polarization (waves))
images[dead link] in the plane wave article to better appreciate this dynamic. This light is considered to be right-hand, clockwise circularly polarized...
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looked "lopsided". The Motion Sense system was panned for its reliance on hand waving gestures that were "so big that it's a cumbersome, tiring, annoying thing...
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much of the time. But not like this. The distraught Helena, played as a hand-waving, eye-rolling ditz by Calista Flockhart, hardly fits into the same film...
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glasses, take off glasses, put on a hat/cap, take off a hat/cap, cheer up, hand waving, kicking something, put something inside pocket / take out something...
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Networks: Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States Hand-waving and Interpretive Dance: An Introductory Course on Tensor Networks Tensor...
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Spellbinder (paper-and-pencil game) (redirect from Waving Hands)
Spellbinder (also known as Waving Hands) is a simultaneous 1977 paper-and-pencil game by Richard Bartle and first published in his fanzine, Sauce of the...
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A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow. Generally, purpose-made handheld fans are...
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he. A woman springs on the Tumbril; clutching the side of it with one hand, waving the other Sibyl-like; and exclaims: "The death of thee gladdens my very...
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saying that McGrath "infuses it with his consistently likeable brand of hand-waving posturing", though Will Levith of Ultimate Classic Rock named the song...
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Pontiac Wave, a car Wave (audience), or Mexican wave, when successive spectators raise their arms Wave (gesture), involving moving one's hand Wave (typeface)...
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touching, He said: You are all close enough for all practical purposes". Hand waving Philosophy of science Metaphysics Limit (mathematics) Phenomenalism Empiricism...
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feature a group of natives performing a ritualistic dance which involves hand-waving movements. The American cover is completely different; it displays two...
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traditionally known as a right-hander wave and Rowley pushed the boundaries of what was possible at the Mavericks left-hander, a task that wasn't without...
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grandmother was shot by an Israeli sniper while holding her grandson's hand, waving a white flag, and walking on the evacuation route which had been declared...
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