finger

Meaning

Noun

1. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
2. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
3. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
4. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
5. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly
6. Something similar in shape to the human finger
7. Something similar in shape to the human finger
8. (obsolete) Something similar in shape to the human finger
9. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly
10. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
11. (obsolete) Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
12. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
13. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
14. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
15. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
16. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
17. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly
18. (obsolete) Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
19. (obsolete,slang) Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
20. (slang) Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
21. (slang) Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
22. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
23. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
24. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
25. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
26. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
27. A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
28. (informal,obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
29. (informal) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
30. (slang) A person.
31. An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
32. Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
33. An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).

Verb

1. To identify or point out; to blame for something.
2. To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
3. To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
4. To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
5. To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
6. To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
7. To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
8. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
9. (obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

Concepts

finger

toe

digit

touch

feel

hand

handle

grope

thumb

fingers

forefinger

claw

arm

reek

sense

smell

fingerbreadth

finger’s breadth

index finger

middle finger

ring finger

little finger

give off an odour

cam

pin

stroke

identify

point out

nudge

pat

rub

dactyl

elbow

middle toe

pinky

little

middle

accuse

put one’s finger on

tamper

strip

contact

palpate

bother

pester

pick

pluck

pull

touch with the finger

interest

share

plunder

pilfer

filch

poke

touch roughly

teo

spear finger

tamper with

annulet

inch

tweedle

fumble

grip

gripping device

tongs

digiti manus

digitus

point to

finger piece

index hand

indicating end

indicating finger

indicator pointer

finger gauge

nucleonics gauge

thickness gauge

dentate

tine

tooth

accompany

go along

toenail

too

pet

fiddle

talon

back of hand

five

ten

wristbands

fellow soldier

fingernail

wrist

snip

last-born

key

key in

press

type

fist

palm of hand

extremity

big toe

thumbsbreadth

first finger

footprint

one

paw

index

branch

foreleg

Hyphenated as

fin‧ger

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɪŋɡə/

Etymology

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”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

Sentences

Pedipalp movable finger consists with six rows of granules .