英语词汇“finger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	finger
释义	fin·ger I. \ˈfiŋgə(r)\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German fingar finger, Old Norse fingr, Gothic fingrs, and perhaps to Old English fīf five — more at five 1. : one of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimb; specifically : one of the four extremities of the hand other than the thumb 2. a. : something that resembles or does the work of a finger < a finger of toast > < a finger of land extending into the sea > < the finger of a clock > b. : a part of a glove into which a finger is inserted c. : one of the bananas or plantains in a hand d. : a vegetable drug cut or compressed into the size and shape of a finger < a finger of rhubarb > e. : a projecting rod, wire, or piece (as a pawl for a ratchet) that is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion 3. a. : fingerbreadth b. : an amount of liquor equal to the quantity in a glass filled up to one fingerbreadth 4. a. : concern, interest, part, share < he seems always to have a finger in some magisterial affair — V.L.Parrington > — often used in the phrase to have a finger in the pie < has a finger in every political pie > b. fingers plural : possession < marries the boss's daughter, and gets his fingers on the armament industry — Sherwood Anderson > 5. slang : one who keeps tabs on or reports on a person : finger man, informer < first they get a finger on him — J.M.Cain > • - lift a finger II. verb (fingered ; fingered ; fingering \-ŋg(ə)riŋ\ ; fingers) Etymology: Middle English fingeren, from finger, n. *transitive verb* 1. : to touch or feel with the fingers : toy with : handle < eyeing her … as a broker buys a diamond … as a country woman fingers a bolt of tweed — Francis Hackett > < fingered his scraggy chin before he answered — C.G.D.Roberts > < fingered his heavy underlip as if probing it for a cold sore — Kenneth Roberts > 2. obsolete : steal, pilfer, purloin 3. a. : to play (a musical instrument) with the fingers b. : to play with a specific fingering c. : to mark the notes of (a music score) as a guide in playing 4. : to extend into or penetrate in the shape of a finger < the long beams of the searchlights fingering the sky — R.H.Newman > < new roads fingering once trackless plains > 5. : to point out : identify, indicate, designate < far be it from me to finger any individual to be blasted by the presidential wrath — G.W.Johnson > < the man he fingered for the mayor's job was an old-time politician > < practically all of them had been fingered by the more reliable ex-Communists — Elmer Davis > as a. : to point out, name, or identify to the police especially in a police lineup < she fingered a boy friend … as one of the killers — Lew Arthur > b. : to indicate to a criminal (as the intended victims or the place or object to be robbed) < in those days you merely fingered the victim … and in a few days your enemy's body was discovered in the gutter — Danny Ahearn > < sometimes the dock boss … fingers the load to be stolen — Malcolm Johnson > c. slang : to keep tabs on : report on : shadow < we've been fingering him for months — L.A.Norris > *intransitive verb* 1. : to touch or handle something < the rosaries, the strings of round bells … brought them toward him … snatching and fingering — Marjory S. Douglas > 2. a. : to use the fingers in playing a musical instrument b. : to have a certain fingering (as of a musical instrument) < it fingers like a cornet > 3. : to extend in the shape or manner of a finger < the docks fingered out into the water — R.P.Warren > < forests, farms, industries … fingering through great river valleys — Betty F. Martin > < searchlights fingered across the black water — Time > III. noun : bird 2 herein
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