finger
Noun:
- One of the slender, jointed parts at the end of the human hand (often excluding the thumb): A finger is a digit of the hand, used for touching, grasping, and manipulating objects.
- A part of a glove covering a finger: The finger of a glove is the section designed to enclose a human finger.
- A linear measurement based on a finger's width: Historically, a unit of length approximately equal to the breadth of a finger.
Verb:
- To touch or handle with the fingers: To use one's fingers to feel, examine, or manipulate something.
- To identify or indicate, especially musically: To mark a musical score with numbers or symbols to show which fingers should be used to play specific notes.
- To search for information on a computer: To use a computer to look up or investigate something, often in a probing manner.
Noun:
- She wore a ring on her index finger.
- There was a hole in the finger of his leather glove.
- The ancient text described a distance of three fingers.
Verb:
- Please do not finger the merchandise in the store.
- The composer fingered the difficult passage for the pianist.
- He fingered the company database to check employee login times.
"to have a finger in every pie": To be involved in many different activities or businesses.
- She seems to have a finger in every pie in the local community.
"to point the finger at someone": To accuse or blame someone.
- The report pointed the finger at management for the safety failures.
"to slip through one's fingers": To fail to seize or keep an opportunity.
- The championship title slipped through their fingers in the final minutes.
Fingering (n): The technique or method of using the fingers, especially when playing a musical instrument.
- The violin piece requires complex fingering.
Fingertip (n): The very end of a finger.
- He had the information at his fingertips.
Fingerlike (adj): Resembling a finger in shape.
- Fingerlike projections of coral extended into the current.
- Digit (n): A finger or toe.
- Feel (v): To examine or perceive by touch.
- Handle (v): To touch or hold with the hands.
Finger through: To search or look through something quickly using the fingers.
- She fingered through the stack of old photographs.
Finger out (informal): To identify or single out.
- It was easy to finger out the main cause of the problem.
"All fingers and thumbs": To be clumsy or awkward with one's hands.
- I'm all fingers and thumbs this morning; I've already dropped my coffee.
"Lift a finger": To make the slightest effort to help.
- He didn't lift a finger to clean the house.
"Put one's finger on something": To identify or recall something precisely.
- I can't quite put my finger on what's different about her new haircut.
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- her fingers were long and thin
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons
- examine by touch
- Feel this soft cloth!
- The customer fingered the sweater
- feel or handle with the fingers
- finger the binding of the book