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Fingerstall

Definition: Fingerstall

Fingerstall

Noun

1. A sheath worn to protect a finger.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Fingerstall

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

Protective device for a single finger or finger tip designed to guard against skin friction and pressure, moisture, chemicals and other liquids, cuts, and hot materials. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Fingerstall

Synonym: cot (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Fingerstall

Language Translations for "fingerstall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

fingertut (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), kirurgisk fingerbeskytter (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vingerling (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall, pintle, pintle boss, rudder lug, rudder pintle, rudder post gudgeons, rudder snug), vingercondoom (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sormisuojus (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), sormensuojain (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

French

  

doigtier (finger cot, finger guard, finger stall, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

German

  

Fingerschutz (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), Fingerschützer (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), Fingerling (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger stall, finger-guard, finger-stall, pintle, rudder pintle), Fingerüberzug (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δακτυλήθρα (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall, thimble). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ditale ad uso industriale (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), ditale (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall, thimble), copridito (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingerstallfay

   

Portuguese

  

dedo de luva (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), dedeira (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall), dedal (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall, thimble). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dedil (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, finger-stall). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tuta (honk, hoot, hooter, toot, tootle). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parmak kılıfı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

напальчик. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fingerstall

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-l-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: flatliners.

-2 letters: allergins, allergist, faltering, fellating, finaglers, flatliner, flatlines, flatlings, gnarliest, inflaters, installer, integrals, refalling, reflating, reinstall, reslating, signaller, triangles.

-3 letters: alerting, aligners, allergin, altering, angriest, astringe, engrafts, engrails, entrails, fainters, fatlings, feasting, feltings, finagler, finagles, flangers, flatline, flatling, flingers, frailest, frigates, galleins, ganister, gantries, gelatins, gellants, genitals, gillnets, glariest, granites, inflater, inflates.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-l-n-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: forestalling.

 

+5 letters: flabbergastingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fingerstall


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6E 67 65 72 73 74 61 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    -.    --.    .    .-.    ...    -    .-    .-..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 0073 0074 0061 006C 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4075807371848586677878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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