OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten you have here. The definition of the word OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofOpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

American Sign Language

Etymology

Similar handshape as 5@Side-PalmBack (five) with similar movement as the other number signs from SmallO@Side-PalmBack Release (eleven) through B@Side-PalmBack Flatten (fourteen).

Production

This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!
  • This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
    1. Posture the dominant hand in the “open B” handshape about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.
    2. Flatten and extend the four fingers (not including the thumb) at least twice, keeping them together.
    3. Posture the dominant hand in a bent version of the “open B” shape, with the four fingers bent at the proximal joint but otherwise extended and together, thumb extended to make a flat hand with a gap between the thumb and the edge of the hand about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.

Number

(ASL gloss: FIFTEEN)

  1. fifteen; 15

See also