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Verb
/ˈfiNGgər/,
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fingers, plural;
  1. Touch or feel (something) with the fingers
    • - the thin man fingered his mustache
  2. Play (a musical instrument) with the fingers, esp. in a tentative or casual manner
    • - a woman fingered a lute
  3. Inform on (someone) to the police
    • - you fingered me for those burglaries
  4. Identify or choose someone for (a particular purpose)
    • - a research biologist with impeccable credentials was fingered for team leader
  5. Play (a passage) with a particular sequence of positions of the fingers

  6. Mark (music) with signs showing which fingers are to be used

Noun
  1. Each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included)
    • - she raked her hair back with her fingers
  2. A part of a glove intended to cover a finger

  3. A measure of liquor in a glass, based on the breadth of a finger
    • - he poured three fingers of vodka into a juice glass
  4. An object that has roughly the long, narrow shape of a finger
    • - a shortbread finger
  1. feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"
  2. any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"
  3. feel: examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
  4. the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
  5. one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
  6. search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
  7. A finger is a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and found in the hands of humans and other primates.Chambers 1998 page 603Oxford Illustrated pages 311,380 Normally humans have five digits, termed phalanges, on each hand (exceptions are polydactyly, hypodactyly and digit loss). ...
  8. The Israel Aircraft Industries Nesher (Hebrew: נשר, "Vulture" - often mistranslated as "Eagle") is the Israeli version of the Dassault Mirage 5 multi-role fighter aircraft. Most were later sold to the Argentine Air Force as Daggers, and later upgraded as Fingers.
  9. Finger is the fifth episode of the third series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on February 3, 1995.
  10. A finger (sometimes fingerbreadth), is usually seven eighths of an inch or 2.2225 cm (for the international inch). The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about two centimetres. The inch, on the other hand, originates in the breadth of a thumb. ...
  11. In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information.
  12. The Finger is a mountain in the Sawback Range of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada.
  13. One of the long extremities of the hand, sometimes excluding the thumb; A piece of food resembling such an extremity; A walkway extending from a dock, an airport terminal, etc, used by passengers to board a waiting ship or aeroplane; An amount of liquid, usually alcohol, in a glass, with the ...
  14. (Fingered) Dulling a coin's shiny high points by dabbing one's thumb on it in order to make it receive a higher grade from a grading service is known as fingering it. ...
  15. (Fingers) Small flags used to control light. (Grip/Lighting)
  16. (FINGERS) 11. Are your fingers gently curved?
  17. (FINGERS) we have ten of them but many people who speak other languages have twenty. They have a much easier time in letting “their fingers do the walking”.
  18. (Fingers) Irregular-shaped pieces of fish, similar to a long, thin fillet, breaded or battered, raw or pre-cooked. Weight per piece varies, usually available portioned (1 to 3 oz.), or in bulk.
  19. (Fingers) Long and narrow slivers of fire which extend beyond the head or flanks. (AFAC)
  20. (Fingers) The 'nippers' of the chelae, in crabs.
  21. (Fingers) The original xenomorph had six fingers, whereas the ones in the sequel had three.
  22. (Fingers) The reason for holding the fingers downward and extended while washing them in the morning is that the evil spirits which hover about man in the night-time may be washed away (Gamaliel ben Pedahzur).
  23. (Fingers) To dream of seeing your fingers soiled or scratched, with the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and suffering. You will despair of making your way through life. ...
  24. (Fingers) i.e. a sometimes used term for edge connector features etched into the edge of the board to interconnect with a standard edge type receptacle.
  25. (fingers) digital/phalangeal - 5 misses