finger
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Is finger a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of finger?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.Examples: "Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers."; "[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it."; "Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths."
2. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:Examples: "The starfish eats with five fingers."
3. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
4. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
5. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
6. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:Examples: "...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’..."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.Examples: "This makes it quite difficult to finger specific gene variants, since any one variant contributes only tiny effects."; "I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety."transitive
2. (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.Synonyms: put the finger on, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, bewray, blow the whistletransitive
3. (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.Examples: "Goe, get you gone: and let the papers lye: / You would be fingring them, to anger me."; ""They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass."; "Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not."transitive
4. (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.Examples: "She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him."; "She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm."Synonyms: fingerbang, fingerfucktransitive
5. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.transitive
6. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary