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thumb T0193800 (thŭm)n.1. a. The short thick digit of the human hand, next to the index finger and opposable to each of the other four digits.b. A corresponding digit in other animals, especially primates. Also called pollex.2. The part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb.3. Architecture An ovolo.v. thumbed, thumb·ing, thumbs v.tr.1. To scan (written matter) by turning over pages with or as if with the thumb.2. To disarrange, soil, or wear by careless or frequent handling.3. Informal To solicit (a ride) from a passing vehicle by signaling with the thumb.v.intr.1. To scan written matter by turning over pages with or as if with the thumb: thumbed through the latest issue of the magazine.2. Informal To hitchhike.Idioms: all thumbs Lacking physical coordination, skill, or grace; clumsy. thumb (one's) nose To express scorn or ridicule, often by placing the thumb on the nose and wiggling the fingers. under (someone's) thumb Under the control of someone; subordinate to.
[Middle English, from Old English thūma; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.]thumb (θʌm) n1. (Anatomy) the first and usually shortest and thickest of the digits of the hand, composed of two short bones. Technical name: pollex 2. (Zoology) the corresponding digit in other vertebrates3. (Clothing & Fashion) the part of a glove shaped to fit the thumb4. (Architecture) architect another name for ovolo5. all thumbs clumsy6. thumbs down an indication of refusal, disapproval, or negation: he gave the thumbs down on our proposal. 7. thumbs up an indication of encouragement, approval, or acceptance8. under someone's thumb at someone's mercy or commandvb9. (tr) to touch, mark, or move with the thumb10. to attempt to obtain (a lift or ride) by signalling with the thumb11. (when: intr, often foll by through) to flip the pages of (a book, magazine, etc) perfunctorily in order to glance at the contents12. thumb one's nose at to deride or mock, esp by placing the thumb on the nose with fingers extended[Old English thūma; related to Old Saxon thūma, Old High German thūmo, Old Norse thumall thumb of a glove, Latin tumēre to swell] ˈthumbless adj ˈthumbˌlike adjthumb (θʌm)
n. 1. the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger. 2. the corresponding digit in other animals; pollex. 3. the part of a glove or mitten for containing this digit. v.t. 4. to soil or wear with the thumbs in handling, as the pages of a book. 5. to glance through (pages) (usu. fol. by through): to thumb through a brochure. 6. (of a hitchhiker) to solicit or get (a ride) by pointing the thumb in the desired direction of travel. Idioms: 1. be all thumbs, to be clumsy. 2. thumb one's nose, a. to raise the hand with fingers extended and touch the thumb to the nose as a gesture of scorn, defiance, etc. b. to manifest defiance or contempt (usu. fol. by at): to thumb one's nose at convention. [before 900; Middle English; Old English thūma, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon thūma, Old High German dūmo; akin to Old Norse thumalfingr (compare thimble)] thumb - From Old English thuma, "thick, swollen."See also related terms for thick.thumb
Past participle: thumbed
Gerund: thumbing
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| I thumb | | you thumb | | he/she/it thumbs | | we thumb | | you thumb | | they thumb |
| Preterite |
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| I thumbed | | you thumbed | | he/she/it thumbed | | we thumbed | | you thumbed | | they thumbed |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am thumbing | | you are thumbing | | he/she/it is thumbing | | we are thumbing | | you are thumbing | | they are thumbing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have thumbed | | you have thumbed | | he/she/it has thumbed | | we have thumbed | | you have thumbed | | they have thumbed |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was thumbing | | you were thumbing | | he/she/it was thumbing | | we were thumbing | | you were thumbing | | they were thumbing |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had thumbed | | you had thumbed | | he/she/it had thumbed | | we had thumbed | | you had thumbed | | they had thumbed |
| Future |
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| I will thumb | | you will thumb | | he/she/it will thumb | | we will thumb | | you will thumb | | they will thumb |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have thumbed | | you will have thumbed | | he/she/it will have thumbed | | we will have thumbed | | you will have thumbed | | they will have thumbed |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be thumbing | | you will be thumbing | | he/she/it will be thumbing | | we will be thumbing | | you will be thumbing | | they will be thumbing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been thumbing | | you have been thumbing | | he/she/it has been thumbing | | we have been thumbing | | you have been thumbing | | they have been thumbing |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been thumbing | | you will have been thumbing | | he/she/it will have been thumbing | | we will have been thumbing | | you will have been thumbing | | they will have been thumbing |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been thumbing | | you had been thumbing | | he/she/it had been thumbing | | we had been thumbing | | you had been thumbing | | they had been thumbing |
| Conditional |
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| I would thumb | | you would thumb | | he/she/it would thumb | | we would thumb | | you would thumb | | they would thumb |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have thumbed | | you would have thumbed | | he/she/it would have thumbed | | we would have thumbed | | you would have thumbed | | they would have thumbed |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  thumb - the thick short innermost digit of the forelimbpollexmusculus abductor pollicis - the abductor muscle of the thumbfinger - any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"thumbnail - the nail of the thumb | | 2. | thumb - the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumbcovering - an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)glove - handwear: covers the hand and wrist | | 3. |  thumb - a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipseovolo, quarter roundechinus - ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric columnmoulding, molding - a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | | Verb | 1. | thumb - travel by getting free rides from motoristshitchhike, hitchride - be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" | | 2. | thumb - look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"leaf, riff, riffle, flick, flipperuse - examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" | | 3. | thumb - feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"fingertouch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
thumbnoun1. digit She bit her thumb, not looking at me.verb1. handle, finger, mark, soil, maul, mess up, dog-ear a well-thumbed copy of Who's Who2. hitch, request (informal), signal for, hitchhike Thumbing a lift once had a carefree image.all thumbs clumsy, inept, cack-handed (informal), maladroit, butterfingered (informal), ham-fisted (informal) Can you open this? I'm all thumbs.thumb through something flick through, browse through, leaf through, glance at, turn over, flip through, skim through, riffle through, scan the pages of, run your eye over He had the drawer open and was thumbing through files.thumbs down disapproval, refusal, rejection, no, rebuff, negation Brokers have given the firm the thumbs down.thumbs up approval, go-ahead (informal), acceptance, yes, encouragement, green light, affirmation, O.K. or okay (informal) The film got a general thumbs up from the critics.Related words
technical name pollex
adjective pollicicalthumbverbTo look through reading matter casually.Also used with through:browse, dip into, flip through, glance at (or over) (or through), leaf (through), riffle (through), run through, scan, skim.Translationsthumb (θam) noun1. the short thick finger of the hand, set at a different angle from the other four. 拇指 拇指2. the part of a glove or mitten covering this finger. 手套的拇指部分 手套的拇指部分 verb (often with through) to turn over (the pages of a book) with the thumb or fingers. She was thumbing through the dictionary. 用拇指翻書頁 用拇指翻书页ˈthumb-nail noun the nail on the thumb. 拇指甲 拇指甲ˈthumbprint noun a mark made by pressing the thumb on to a surface, sometimes used as means of identification. 拇指的指紋 拇指的指纹ˌthumbs-ˈup noun a sign expressing a wish for good luck, success etc. He gave me the thumbs-up. (表示贊成和滿意的)翹拇指 （表示赞成和满意的）翘拇指 ˈthumbtack noun (American) a drawing-pin. She hung the picture on the wall with thumbtacks. 圖釘 图钉under someone's thumb controlled or greatly influenced by someone. She is completely under her husband's thumb. 受某人的影響或支配 受某人的影响或支配thumb
See:- a pricking in (one's) thumbs
- a pricking in your thumbs
- a rule of thumb
- all thumbs
- all thumbs, to be
- be all fingers and thumbs
- be all thumbs
- be twiddling (one's) thumbs
- be twiddling your thumbs
- bite (one's) thumb at
- brown thumb
- give (something) the thumbs down
- give (something) the thumbs up
- give something the thumbs down
- give something the thumbs up
- green thumb
- green-thumbed
- have (someone) under (one's) thumb
- have a green thumb
- hitch a lift
- hitch a ride
- hold (one's) thumbs
- hold thumbs
- hold your thumbs
- keep (someone) under (one's) thumb
- rule of thumb
- stand out like a sore thumb
- stand/stick out like a sore thumb
- stick out
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stick out like a sore thumb, to
- the thumbs up/down
- thumb (one's) nose at (someone or something)
- thumb a lift
- thumb a ride
- thumb nose
- thumb nose at
- thumb on the scale
- thumb one's nose
- thumb through
- thumb through (something)
- thumb your nose at
- thumb your nose at somebody/something
- thumb your nose at someone
- thumb/hitch a lift
- thumbs down
- thumbs up
- turn thumbs down
- turn thumbs down (on something)
- turn thumbs down on someone/something
- turn thumbs up
- turn thumbs up (on something)
- twiddle (one's) thumbs
- twiddle one’s thumbs
- twiddle one's thumbs
- twiddle one's thumbs, to
- twiddle thumbs
- twiddle your thumbs
- two thumbs up
- under (one's) thumb
- under somebody's thumb
- under someone’s thumb
- under someone's thumb
- under thumb
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thumb1. the first and usually shortest and thickest of the digits of the hand, composed of two short bones 2. the corresponding digit in other vertebrates Thumb (processor)An extension to the Advanced RISC Machinearchitecture, announced on 06 March 1995 by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. By identifying the critical subset of the ARMinstruction set and encoding it into 16 bits, ARM hassucceeded in reducing typical program size by 30-40% fromARM's already excellent code density. Since this Thumbinstruction set uses less memory for program storage, cost isfurther reduced.
All Thumb-aware processor cores combine the capability toexecute both the 32-bit ARM and the 16-bit Thumb instructionsets. Careful design of the Thumb instructions allow them tobe decompressed into full ARM instructions transparentlyduring normal instruction decoding without any performancepenalty. This differs from other 32-bit processors, like theIntel 486SX, with a 16-bit data bus, which require two16-bit memory accesses to execute every 32-bit instruction andso halve performance.
The patented Thumb decompressor has been carefully designedwith only a small amount of circuitry additional to theexisting instruction decoder, so chip size and thus cost donot significantly increase. Designers can easily interleavefast ARM instructions (for performance critical parts of aprogram) with compact Thumb code to save memory.thumb (jargon)The slider or "bubble" on a window systemscrollbar. So called because moving it allows you to browsethrough the contents of a text window in a way analogous tothumbing through a book.thumb(1) See scroll bar and thumb culture.
(2) (Thumb) An extension to the architecture of an ARM chip that provides enhanced code density. It stores a subset of 32-bit instructions as compressed 16-bit instructions and decompresses them back to 32 bits upon execution. See ARM.thumb
thumb [thum] the radial or first digit of the hand; it has only two phalanges and is apposable to the four fingers of the hand.tennis thumb tendinitis of the tendon of the long flexor muscle of the thumb, with calcification.thumb (thŭmb), [TA] The first digit on the radial side of the hand. Synonym(s): pollex [TA], digitus (manus) primus [I] [I]* ☆ , first finger [A.S. thuma] thumb (thŭm)n.a. The short thick digit of the human hand, next to the index finger and opposable to each of the other four digits.b. A corresponding digit in other animals, especially primates. Also called pollex.v. thumbed, thumbing, thumbs Anatomy Pollex The first digit of the hand, which has 2 phalanges; it is required for a prehensile grip
Anthropology See Rule of thumb
Drug slang A regional term for marijuanathumb See Bowler's thumb, Gamekeeper's thumb, Harp player's thumb, Hitch-hiker's thumb, Skier's thumb, Trigger thumb. thumb (thŭm) [TA] The first digit on the radial side of the hand.
Synonym(s): pollex [TA] . [A.S. thuma]Patient discussion about thumbQ. What does thumb or finger sucking mean in ADULTS? People watch the unusual behavior of a person and decide their disorder. I strongly agree, but here is a critical question for you all. What does thumb or finger sucking mean in ADULTS?A. It’s not a show to enjoy and laugh! It means that whomever you are talking about needs to see a psychologist. I am not joking. Things we are supposed to out-grow but don't, i.e. thumb sucking, imaginary friends or bed wetting, can represent serious problems or mental blocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_OVYDwwAu4&eurl=http://www.imedix.com/health_community/vB%5EOVYDwwAu4_health_posture_1953?q=sucking&feature=player_embedded More discussions about thumbTHUMB
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| THUMB➣Tiny Humans Underground Military Bureau (Tom of Thumb) | | THUMB➣Tribal Hindu Unreligious Muslim Buddhist (mnemonic for the five largest non-Christian believing groups) |
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Related to thumb: Trigger thumbSynonyms for thumbnoun digitSynonymsverb handleSynonyms- handle
- finger
- mark
- soil
- maul
- mess up
- dog-ear
verb hitchSynonyms- hitch
- request
- signal for
- hitchhike
phrase all thumbsSynonyms- clumsy
- inept
- cack-handed
- maladroit
- butterfingered
- ham-fisted
phrase thumb through somethingSynonyms- flick through
- browse through
- leaf through
- glance at
- turn over
- flip through
- skim through
- riffle through
- scan the pages of
- run your eye over
phrase thumbs downSynonyms- disapproval
- refusal
- rejection
- no
- rebuff
- negation
phrase thumbs upSynonyms- approval
- go-ahead
- acceptance
- yes
- encouragement
- green light
- affirmation
- O.K. or okay
Synonyms for thumbverb to look through reading matter casuallySynonyms- browse
- dip into
- flip through
- glance at
- leaf
- riffle
- run through
- scan
- skim
Synonyms for thumbnoun the thick short innermost digit of the forelimbSynonymsRelated Words- musculus abductor pollicis
- finger
- thumbnail
noun the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumbRelated Wordsnoun a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipseSynonymsRelated Wordsverb travel by getting free rides from motoristsSynonymsRelated Wordsverb look through a book or other written materialSynonymsRelated Wordsverb feel or handle with the fingersSynonymsRelated Words |