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Meaning thumb meaning

What does thumb mean?
Definitions in simple English

thumb Noun

— A thumb is the part of your hand that looks like a short, fat finger. Most people have a thumb on each hand. In many countries, pointing your thumb up means, "good". — A thumb or thumbnail is a small picture on a computer that you can click on to see a larger picture.

thumb Verb

— When someone thumbs, they are standing by a road waiting for someone to give them a ride. I thumbed down a pickup truck to take me to San Antonio.

thumb

— noun the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb — verb (= hitchhike) travel by getting free rides from motorists — noun the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb — noun (= ovolo) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse — verb (= finger) feel or handle with the fingers finger the binding of the book — verb (= leaf) look through a book or other written material He thumbed through the report She leafed through the volume

Synonyms thumb synonyms

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thumb English » English

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Topics thumb topics

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

Finger, toe
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Touch
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Gesture

Conjugation thumb conjugation

How do you conjugate thumb?

thumb · verb

Examples thumb examples

How do I use thumb in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The glove has a hole in the thumb.
As a rule of thumb, you should plan on one pound of beef for every two guests.
I pricked my thumb with a needle.
He accidentally hit his thumb with the hammer.
He has her under his thumb.
His wife has him under the thumb.
I hurt my thumb doing a handspring.
She has him under her thumb.
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
He's under the thumb.
Tom deleted all the files off his thumb drive.
Tom accidentally hit his thumb with a hammer.
She had no rule of thumb about it, but she got it right every time.
Tom accidentally threw his thumb drive into the garbage.

Movie subtitles

You broke my thumb.
If you're gonna handcuff somebody, don't break their thumb.
It's all in that old thumb, see?
But that old thumb never fails.
Keep your eye on that thumb, baby, and see what happens.
I still got my eye on the thumb.
I'll stop a car and I won't use my thumb.
I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
He's sort of under Mother's thumb.
Two good thumb prints.
My Bonnie sucks her thumb.
Put quinine on her thumb and she'll stop sucking it quick enough.
In 2 years the world will be under your thumb.
You were never meant to suck your thumb in a king's collar.
You broke my thumb. Yeah, I did.
Anyone else had been in my place during the last few years, He'd have had Mr. Wickfield under his thumb.
Under his thumb!
The world will be under your thumb.
Keep your eye on that thumb and see what happens.
I'll stop a car, and I won't use my thumb.
Well, I proved once and for all. that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
You know, under the thumb. - Yeah.
Hey, Tom Thumb, you lost your army.

News and current affairs

Weak neighbors are states that the Kremlin can control, so why not expand Russian power by letting Ukraine slide into protest and anarchy if by doing so it brings that country back under Putin's thumb?
Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.
These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.
Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.
Recognizing this indestructibility, Russian leaders have always sought to keep the mass media under their thumb, and artists on their side.
On closer scrutiny, what passed as state-of-the-art thinking on economic policy turns out to have been based on some crude rules of thumb.
A good rule of thumb for the average growth rates of the G-7 countries would be to attribute about one percentage point in productivity gains to the growth rate of the working-age population.
Few can now strut the national stage, or thumb their nose at the Kremlin, as they did during the Yeltsin era, but their powers are real and reigning them in won't be easy.
The normal rules of thumb would say that the market is now expecting 8.75 years of near-zero short-term interest rates before the economy returns to normal.
The FSB favors keeping the media under the Kremlin's thumb.
Even a solitary superpower should follow this rule of thumb: try multilateralism first.
By reappointing a Fed chair chosen by someone else, a president can appear to guarantee financial markets that the Fed is not too much under his thumb.
In annexing Crimea and stoking separatist violence in Donbas, the Kremlin's aim has clearly been to destabilize Ukraine in order to bring it under Russia's thumb.
Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.
A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession.
Demonstratively hostile to the interests of both Belarus and Ukraine, the pipeline is intended to ensure that these countries are under Russia's energy thumb, regardless of who is in power in Minsk and Kiev.

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