name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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name
A city in Tennessee.
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noun
A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals.
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noun
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly
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noun
Something similar in shape to the human finger
Finger-shaped pieces of food.
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Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
Something similar in shape to the human finger
A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
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Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Something similar in shape to the human finger
Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, plural-normally, regional
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: foxglove
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
A lobe of the liver.
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Usage: obsolete
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
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Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: jet bridge
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noun
Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
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Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: hand
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
A policeman or prison guard.
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Usage: US, obsolete, slang
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
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Usage: US, rare, slang
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
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Usage: US, rare, slang
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noun
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1⁄16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
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Usage: historical
Topics: units-of-measure
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Synonyms: digit
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noun
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 41⁄2 inches (11.43 cm).
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Usage: historical
Topics: units-of-measure
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noun
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
Synonym of digit: 1⁄12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
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Usage: historical
Topics: units-of-measure
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Synonyms: digit
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noun
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
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noun
A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
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Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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noun
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
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Usage: informal, obsolete
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noun
Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
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Usage: informal, rare
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noun
A person.
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Usage: UK, slang
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noun
An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
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Usage: especially
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noun
Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
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Topics: broadcasting, media, radio
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noun
An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
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Usage: vulgar
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verb
To identify or point out; to blame for something.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: put the finger on, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, bewray, blow the whistle, clepe, denounce, dime, dime out, dob, drop a dime, drop a dime on someone, finger, fink, fizgig, inform, inform on, grass on, grass up, lolly up, name names, nark, peach, roll on, sing, snitch, snitch up, squeak, squeal, tattle, tell, tell all, tell on, tell tales, tip off
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verb
To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
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Usage: transitive
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Broader terms: handle
verb
To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: lifestyle, sex, sexuality
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Synonyms: fingerbang, fingerfuck
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verb
To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
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Usage: Internet, transitive
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verb
To steal; to purloin.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To execute, as any delicate work.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
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Broader terms: covering
noun
any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: digit, dactyl, extremity
Narrower terms: thumb, pollex, index, index finger, forefinger, ring finger, annualry, middle finger, little finger, pinkie, pinky
noun
the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fingerbreadth, finger's breadth, digit
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Broader terms: linear unit, linear measure
verb
indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
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Broader terms: indicate, point, designate, show
verb
examine by touch
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Synonyms: feel
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verb
feel or handle with the fingers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: thumb
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Broader terms: touch
verb
search for on the computer
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Broader terms: search, seek, look for
History
English, German, and Jewish surname, from the noun finger.
PIE word *pénkwe From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkwrós, from *pénkwe (“five”). Cognate with West Frisian finger, German and Low German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish finger, Faroese and Icelandic fingur; see also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.
Across languages
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