Bow
Gesture
Gesture noun - A movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling.
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Bow and gesture are semantically related in motion as communication topic. Sometimes you can use "Bow" instead the word "Gesture" as a noun or a verb.
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For example, the Flare Arrow spell needs a gesture like firing an imaginary bow (and, indeed, a glowing bow made of fire appears during the casting of the spell).
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Taelon shuttles in Earth: Final Conflict are piloted using a gesture based system, including a bow-and-arrow like move for firing the weapons. Similarly...
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A popular but apocryphal story about the origin of this version of the gesture involves the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, where the French allegedly boasted they would cut off the bow-fingers of every English longbowman they captured.
Source: Flipping the Bird
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