thumb

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Humanthumbthumb1 /θʌm/ S3 noun [countable] 1 Image of thumb

HBHthe part of your hand that is shaped like a thick short finger and helps you to hold things a baby sucking its thumb She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.2 DCCthe part of a glove that fits over your thumb3 → be all fingers and thumbs4 → the thumbs up/down5 → be under somebody’s thumb → rule of thumb, → stand/stick out like a sore thumbExamples from the Corpusthumb• But it was plainly calculated as a thumb in the eye of the United States.• Then he looked at Bill Wall, extending his hand with finger and thumb crooked.• The third had a grotesquely enlarged thumb.• She put the mustache back and pressed it with her thumb.• I sat there and twiddled my thumbs.• As a rule of thumb, funds with durations of one to three years are relatively conservative.• When constructing a footpath we follow rules of thumb. thumbthumb2 verb 1 → thumb a lift2 → thumb your nose at somebody/something → thumb through something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusthumb• Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift, but they didn't stop.• Faubus had again thumbed his nose at the judiciary by refusing to appear.• Voters here have always been drawn to against-the-grain outsiders who make a career of thumbing their noses at party traditionalists.• Once again Azadi thumbed through the intelligence report for some inspiration.• As a joke I actually bought it for Richard to thumb through.Origin thumb1 Old English thuma

单词	thumb
释义	thumb From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Humanthumbthumb1 /θʌm/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1HBHthe part of your hand that is shaped like a thick short finger and helps you to hold things a baby sucking its thumb She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.2 DCCthe part of a glove that fits over your thumb3 → be all fingers and thumbs4 → the thumbs up/down5 → be under somebody’s thumb → rule of thumb, → stand/stick out like a sore thumbExamples from the Corpusthumb• But it was plainly calculated as a thumb in the eye of the United States.• Then he looked at Bill Wall, extending his hand with finger and thumb crooked.• The third had a grotesquely enlarged thumb.• She put the mustache back and pressed it with her thumb.• I sat there and twiddled my thumbs.• As a rule of thumb, funds with durations of one to three years are relatively conservative.• When constructing a footpath we follow rules of thumb. thumbthumb2 verb 1 → thumb a lift2 → thumb your nose at somebody/something → thumb through something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusthumb• Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift, but they didn't stop.• Faubus had again thumbed his nose at the judiciary by refusing to appear.• Voters here have always been drawn to against-the-grain outsiders who make a career of thumbing their noses at party traditionalists.• Once again Azadi thumbed through the intelligence report for some inspiration.• As a joke I actually bought it for Richard to thumb through.Origin thumb1 Old English thuma
随便看	ambit ambitio ambition ambitions of doing ambitious ambitus ambivalent ambivalent attitude etc fill to the brim overflowing fill to the to overflowing fill up fill up fill up fill with fill with fill your the days etc fill your the days etc with fill your time days etc fill your time days etc with fill your time/the days etc (with something) fill yourself (up)/fill your face fill yourself fill your face fill yourself up your face fill yourself your face fill/plug the gap