Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Communication by means of a manual alphabet.
Wiktionary
- n. The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
- n. Any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands.
- n. A representation of the spelling of a word using just the hands.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an alphabet of manual signs
Examples
“In the 1960s, linguists began to understand that far from being mere pantomime or fingerspelling, ASL is a highly evolved language with a syntax entirely different from any spoken language.3”
“People were kind, friendly, and patient, but I hated to impose my blank looks, my need for painfully slow fingerspelling, my ignorance of whole swaths of essential vocabulary.”
“I looked up startled that he was signing at me and then he made the sign for fingerspelling.”
“I distracted myself by fingerspelling words on trucks and keeping my memory limber for numbers by doing the occasional license plate.”
“Stokoe notation was created by William Stokoe for ASL in 1960, with Latin letters and numbers used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.”
“A grand mal is a "wham bam and 'no thank you' ma'am" which leaves me fingerspelling upon waking, "Where is that truck which hit me?”
“The title comes from Mary Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's lethal parody "The Boy From ..." (which has been hilariously translated into American Sign Language — fingerspelling the name of the town every time must bring down the house). posted by Matthew @ 9: 44 AM”
"When I tell him I think he's the end, he giggles a lot with his friend"
“One was fingerspelling B-A-T-T-E-R-Y, which only works if your client understands the English term - about which more later - the next was HURT, which probably requires some context to establish what kind of hurting's being done but clearly doesn't mean kill, and the last was a compound of HURT~ACCUSE.”
Can a deaf black lesbian charged with murder get a fair trial?
“In fact, the advantage of ASL in this respect is that it can't really get away with borrowing from Latin or Norman French to create legal vocabulary - unless you're just flat-out fingerspelling everything.”
Can a deaf black lesbian charged with murder get a fair trial?
“There is an amazing amount of information here, including a library full of topical essays on things like deaf culture and how to meet deaf people; a fingerspelling tool/tutorial; baby's first 100 signs, and much more.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fingerspelling’.
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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Handcraft
Gestures, signs and signals.
gesture, sign language, hand signal, manual communication, diving signal, tic-tac, gang signal, thumbs up, thumbs down, finger binary, pointing, a-ok and 106 more...
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Mobile Microsite
Words for marketing mobile emails to email marketers.
incandescence, bolt, dart, pealing, akimbo, critical, get focused, zoom in, concentrate, zonk out, freak out, freebee and 99 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
Tweets
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