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finger English

Meaning finger meaning

What does finger mean?
Definitions in simple English

finger Noun

— A finger is a long thin part of your hand that bends. Most people have four fingers and one thumb on each hand. He only uses one finger on the keyboard.

finger Verb

— If you finger something, you touch with your fingers it to see what it feels like. — if you finger someone, you tell the police that the person did something wrong.

finger

— noun any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) her fingers were long and thin — verb feel or handle with the fingers finger the binding of the book — verb (= feel) examine by touch Feel this soft cloth! The customer fingered the sweater — verb search for on the computer I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons — verb indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments — noun one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb — noun the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

Synonyms finger synonyms

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finger English » English

toe digit touch feel hand handle thumb grope fingers forefinger claw arm smell sense ring finger reek middle finger little finger index finger finger’s breadth fingerbreadth stroke rub point out pinky pin pat nudge middle toe middle little identify give off an odour elbow dactyl cam wristbands wrist type tweedle touch with the finger touch roughly tooth too tongs toenail tine thumbsbreadth thickness gauge teo

Topics finger topics

What do people use finger to talk about?
Person Body Limb

Finger, toe
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Daily life

Fire
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing fruit

Growing bananas
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Touch
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Altruistic, selfless

Use a person
Social behavior Law Trial

Accuse, confront

Conjugation finger conjugation

How do you conjugate finger?

finger · verb

Examples finger examples

How do I use finger in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My little finger is swollen.
Stick your finger through your throat!
Put your finger in your throat.
I cut my finger peeling potatoes.
I sucked my finger.
Tom wasn't wearing a wedding ring, but Mary noticed a white circle on his ring finger.
Cool the burned finger in running water.
The pin pierced his finger and it began to bleed.
I sprained my finger while playing volleyball.
The stalk is a little bigger around than your little finger.
I can't get this splinter out of my finger.
He wouldn't even lift a finger.
I cut my finger with a knife.
He put the ring on Mary's finger.
His wife had him wrapped around her little finger.
My father doesn't lift a finger at home.
Our daughter burned her finger with a match.
Our daughter burnt her finger with a match.
Oh no, I accidentally sawed off my finger! What should I do?
Mayuko got a cut on her finger.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
I caught my finger in the door.
But no one's lifted a finger.
Don't cut your finger.
I just cut my finger.
I ran a splinter into my finger.
I'm pointing the finger at his mistake.

Movie subtitles

This darn finger of mine!
This crazy finger!
You'd think one of them would have lifted their finger before Liz Taylor here.
Josh, when are you gonna put a ring on this lovely girl's finger?
Say, a little finger?
What happened to your finger?
He's got that sewing circle wrapped around his little finger.
From that finger, yes.
Better to point the finger at one or several of Evan's rivals.
You can come a bit closer, if you like, and if you're lucky he might squeeze your finger.
Sweep with a finger.
He'll twist him around his little finger.
Well, they were saying.. lt seemed as though they were pointing a finger at you and Matt.
Why, 40 of your jackmans aren't worth me little finger.
I've got my finger on the trigger.
It seemed as though they were pointing a finger at you and Matt.
It's only his finger.
I'm playing Finger-Wiggle.
Finger-Wiggle.
F - l- inger, finger.
If you raise a finger against me, you're a dead man.
Power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger.
And he put the finger on me.
One thing: Part of his little finger was missing.
For that finger.
Long, slender and artistic, and a diamond ring the size of a small potato on the right little finger.
Now place it on Joan's finger.
Joan, he isn't worth your little finger.
That thing on your finger isn't a pop bottle, you know.
Putting the finger on jewelry is one thing, but bumping people off is another.
And I've got a hunch that some finger man is tipping them off.
Sure. go on and laugh. There are stranger things than playing a record with your finger.
Have you ever tried holding your finger to your upper lip, hard?

News and current affairs

WASHINGTON, DC - Dropping bombs as a solution to the world's trouble spots may be falling out of fashion (with the notable exception of Libya), but finger wagging is definitely back in.
What was very surprising, particularly given his finger-wagging visits to America and other rich democracies, was that the Pope did not criticize the Polish people for their robust materialism.
For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for.
If something unacceptable happens without a minister's direct involvement, he or she can get away with it, or so it seems, by pointing a finger at the bureaucrats or contractors who are responsible for implementing an approved policy.
Such finger-pointing has a price.
But no amount of finger pointing can obscure the fact that, 50 years after the European Community's creation, Europe badly needs a new political framework, if not a new project, to shore up its unity.
Animosity among Europeans is at an all-time high, with Greeks and Germans, in particular, having descended to the point of moral grandstanding, mutual finger-pointing, and open antagonism.
Though they allow women to go out and work, they ensure that men continue to be pampered like oriental potentates, never lifting a finger in the home.
Accusations and finger pointing abounds, but the facts remain obscure.
Some point a finger at Ariel Sharon, citing his provocative visit to the Temple Mount area of Jerusalem.
Embattled politicians can be counted on to point the finger.
SEOUL - After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.
The far left indicts capitalism; the far right points the finger of blame at immigrants.
Earlier this year, the editor of Die Zeit, Josef Joffe, put his finger on the issue: like Jews, Americans are said to be selfish and arrogant.
Finger pointing will not fix anything.
Finger pointing replaces responsibility, fueling popular demand for a strongman (or woman) who can override political divisions.
But it will no longer be able to condemn the US for not signing environmental treaties, or point a finger at China for its massive output of pollution.
Bush pointed his finger primarily elsewhere. Food prices had responded to growing demand.
Not only did China resist measures that had been under negotiation for the preceding year, but Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's decision to send a low-level official to meet with and point a finger at Obama was downright insulting.
The FCIC Republicans point the finger firmly at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other government-sponsored enterprises that supported housing loans by providing guarantees of various kinds.
Diamond started to fight back, pointing an accusatory finger at the Bank of England.
But if we are pointing the finger at Sea World for what it does to its captive animals, we should also look more broadly at the way we confine performing animals.
It fuels endless internal and external tensions, encourages finger pointing, and promotes a loud and disruptive blame game.
If he is right, the increase will turn out to be little more than a finger in the dyke of Japan's budget problems.
Bush pointed his finger primarily elsewhere.
ATHENS - A German television presenter recently broadcast an edited video of me, before I was Greece's finance minister, giving his country the middle-finger salute.
But it certainly was unwise to allow a junior official to shout and wag his finger at Obama at one of the key Copenhagen meetings.
What else can explain the treatment of Obama on his first trip to China and during the disastrous 2009 climate-change conference in Copenhagen, where a relatively minor Chinese official wagged his finger in the face of the US president?
Russia is again on a tear. This time, the Kremlin has stuck its finger in the West's eye over the long and painful effort to bring Kosovo to formal independence.

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