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Definition: Finger |
FingerNoun1. Any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin". 2. The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure. 3. The part of a glove that provides a covering for one of the fingers. Verb1. Feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book". 2. Examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater". 3. Search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons". 4. Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "finger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Finger [WAITS, via BSD Unix] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system. Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable). May also display a plan file left by the user (see also Hacking X for Y). 2. vt. To apply finger to a username. 3. vt. By extension, to check a human's current state by any means. "Foodp?" "T!" "OK, finger Lisa and see if she's idle." 4. Any picture (composed of ASCII characters) depicting `the finger'. Originally a humorous component of one's plan file to deter the curious fingerer (sense 2), it has entered the arsenal of some flamers. Source: Jargon File. |
Electrical Engineering | A small flexible metal wire positioned at a desired crosspoint and held there to cause the contacts to remain closed for the duration of a call. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Every plate carries a series of --, from three to ten. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Finger (Anglo-Saxon, finger). The ear finger, digitus auricularis - i.e. the little finger. The four fingers are the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the ear finger. In French, le doigt auriculaire. The little finger is so called because it can, from its diminutive size, be most easily introduced into the conduit of the ear. "Le doigt auriculaire est le petit doight, ainsi nommé parce qu'a cause de sa petitesse, il peut facilement être introduit dans le conduit auditif externe." - Dict. des Sciences, etc. The index finger. The first finger; so called because it is used as a pointer. The medical finger. The ring finger (q.v.). "At last he put on her medical finger a pretty, handsome gold ring, whereinto was enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse." - Rabelais: Pantagruel, iii. 17. The ring finger. The finger between the long and little finger was used by the Romans as a ring-finger, from the belief that a nerve ran through it to the heart. Hence the Greeks and Romans used to call it the medical finger, and used it for stirring mixtures, under the notion that nothing noxious could touch it without its giving instant warning to the heart. It is still a very general notion in England that it is bad to rub on salve or scratch the skin with any but the ring finger. The fact that there was no such intimacy between the finger and the heart was not discovered till after the notion was deeply rooted. Pliny calls this digitus annularis. With a wet finger. Easily. (See Wet Finger.) My little finger told me that. The same as "A little bird told me that," meaning, I know it, though you did not expect it. The former expression is from Moliée's Malade Imaginaire. (See Bird.) "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. l. Cry, baby, cry; put your finger in your eye, etc. This nursery rhyme seem to be referred to by Shakespeare in his Comedy of Errors, ii. 2: - "No longer will I be fool, To put the finger in the eye and weep." To hold up a finger (in an auction room) by way of a bid, was a Roman custom, "digitum tollere" (Cicero: In Verrem, Actio i. 54). Horace confirms this. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. One of the cutting edges on a finger bit. See also:finger bi b. A pair or set of bracketlike projections placed at a strategic point in a drill tripod or derrick, generally at a level with one of the work platforms, to keep a number of lengths of drill rods or casing in place when they are standing in the tripod or derrick. Also one of the flexible prong parts of a basket lifter. (references) |
Transportation | Fingers are protrusions from the terminal building which extend into the apron area. A -- can be a fenced open walkway or a completely enclosed structure one or two stories in height. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A covered, movable passage-way through an aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Covered way projecting from the terminal building along which passengers walk to reach the aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Elevated structural path for passenger loading and unloading. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Covered, movable passage-way through an aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also finger protocol
The finger is any of the digits of the hand in humans and other species such as the great apes. The grace of the fingers is not sacrificed to their dexterity due to the placement of their muscles in the forearm, with motion communicated via long tendons which may be observed on the back of the hand. A notable exception is the thumb, with its flexor and rotators comprised in the hand itself.
The bones of the fingers are called phalanges (singular phalanx); the thumb has two phalanges, and the other fingers have three. The fingers have common names from the thumb inward: thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger or pinky.
Relative to much of the skin of the human body, the fingertips have a high concentration of nerve endings, equipping them as centers of tactile sensation; touching something or someone is often done with the hands and in particular the fingers. Another important example of this capacity is in the ability to read Braille. Additionally, prehension is enhanced by the presence of the ridges and whorls known as fingerprints. Each finger is protected at its dorsal terminus by a fingernail (Latin unguis, unguiculus).
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The finger protocol is a simple network protocol based on RFC1196 (The Finger User Information Protocol). Typically the server side of the protocol is implemented by a program "fingerd" (for finger daemon), while the client side is implemented by the "name" and "finger" programs. The program is supposed to return a friendly, human-oriented status report on either the system at the moment or a particular person in depth. There is no required format, and the protocol consists mostly of specifying a single command line. It is most often implemented on Unix or Unix-like systems.The program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user information, finger displays the contents of ".plan" file in the user's home directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contained either useful information about the user's current activities, or alternatively all manner of humor.
Supplying such detailed information was considered acceptable and convenient in the early days of the Internet, but later was considered questionable for privacy and security reasons. Finger information has been frequently used by crackerss as a way to initiate a social engineering attack on a company's computer security system. By using a finger client to get a list of a company's employee names, email addresses, phone numbers, and so on, a cracker can telephone or email someone at a company requesting information while posing as another employee. Information garnered from finger can be used both to find an employee to contact directly, and to more effectively pose as an existing employee. The finger daemon has also had several exploitable security holes which crackers have used to break into systems.
For these reasons, while finger was widely used during the early days of Internet, by the 1990s the vast majority of sites on the internet no longer offered the service. Notable exceptions include John Carmack, who still updates his status information occasionally.
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Finger is a city located in McNairy County, Tennessee. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 350.Geography
Finger is located at 35°21'24" North, 88°36'32" West (35.356777, -88.608995)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.9 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.9 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 350 people, 122 households, and 96 families residing in the city. The population density is 89.5/km² (231.1/mi²). There are 134 housing units at an average density of 34.3/km² (88.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 94.86% White, 1.14% African American, 3.14% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races. 1.43% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 122 households out of which 43.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.7% are married couples living together, 9.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.5% are non-families. 18.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.87 and the average family size is 3.28. In the city the population is spread out with 31.7% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 31 years. For every 100 females there are 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.7 males. The median income for a household in the city is $29,250, and the median income for a family is $36,250. Males have a median income of $28,250 versus $11,750 for females. The per capita income for the city is $11,654. 21.6% of the population and 19.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 31.2% are under the age of 18 and 18.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Finger, Tennessee."
Synonyms: FingerSynonyms: digit (n), fingerbreadth (n), finger's breadth (n), feel (v), thumb (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Retention | Paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif. |
Touch | Verb: touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler. |
Hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus. | |
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Crosswords: Finger |
| English words defined with "finger": Auricular finger ♦ Ear finger ♦ finger alphabet, finger hole, finger plate, Finger post, Finger shell, Finger stall ♦ index finger ♦ Lady's finger, little finger ♦ middle finger ♦ ring finger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "finger": ASSEMBLER, FINGER BUFFS ♦ Finger and Glove, finger cot, finger guard, Finger in the Pie, FINGER POST, finger trouble ♦ Mercurial Finger ♦ trigger finger ♦ Wedding Finger, Wet Finger. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "finger": Unguiculata. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Finger" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (finger), Frisian (finger), German (dactyl, digit, finger, fingers), Norwegian (finger), Swedish (digit, finger). |
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Screenplays | Don't point that finger at me unless you intend to use it. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) You just wiggled your finger. That's wonderful (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Maybe I should tie a string around my finger to remind myself to write a little note, to remind myself to write a little note, to remind myself to write a little note (Cartoon Planet; writing credit: Andy Merrill; Pete Smith) My agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams) The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Staring at the ring around your finger (Wrapped Around Your Finger; performing artist: The Police) Throw up a finger if ya' feel the same way (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) But then your finger won't trigger the gun (Armageddon It; performing artist: Def Leppard) Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it (Roll To Me; performing artist: Del Amitri) I've got my finger on the trigger (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) | |
Clever | Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (references; author: Mel Brooks) Honk if you want to see my finger! (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Finger 5's Great Adventure (1974) Five Finger Exercise (1970) Feather Finger (1966) Lange Beine - lange Finger (1966) Finger on the Trigger (1965) | |
Song Titles | Finger Poppin' Time (performing artist: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters) Soul Finger (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Bar-Kays) Wrapped Around Your Finger (performing artist: The Police) | |
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 | Note the herpetic lesions on the palmar surface of the left ring finger. Living in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord, under stressful conditions, the herpes viruses migrate along the pathways of peripheral nerve distribution. Credit: CDC. |  | White Finger Disease, or Raynaud's Syndrome, is essentially a problem involving a lack of blood to the nerves, and in this case, was caused by the constant vibration of the hands and arms. Credit: CDC. |
 | Finger Lakes, NY. Credit: NASA. |  | Back finger of a tidal pond full of the submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) Eurasian watermilfoil. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Elkhorn coral and a clubtip finger coral in the foreground. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Referral manuals and telephone numbers, the "tools of the trade" for crisis hotline volunteers, are always at their finger tips when needed to help someone with a problem. (P.; photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed).. |
 | Inspecting hives in the Finger Lakes National Forest, NY. Credit: USDA. |  | A sulky pulled by a in the horse campground in the Finger Lakes National Forest, NY. Credit: USDA. |
 | Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Finger exerciser - light resistive exercise for finger flexors. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Wounds and Injuries: Warrior has finger bandaged by aide]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Finger" by Fernando Azcona Commentary: "Statue from Italy." | "A little scar in my finger" by Luis Alexandre Commentary: "I like this little scar in my finger.. i can't remind how i did it.. but i like it.." |
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 | Child saying, "Pull my finger, Dad" and blowing a raspberry. | | A single finger snap. |
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Adam Smith | Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. |
Benjamin Franklin | Clean your finger before you point at my spots. |
Hans Christian Anderson | Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. |
Herbert Spencer | Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | God's finger touched him and he slept. |
Lucretius | The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. |
Omar Khayyam | The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. |
William C. Bryant | Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. |
William Hazlitt | The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Its finger pointed to two persons meeting |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter and passed on. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | That trifle once out of your pocket, I assure you that all is said, and that you need not fear a snap of the finger. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bearded man dropped his mouth open and put a dirty finger against his lower gums |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Lancet device–a spring-loaded finger sticking device. (references) | |
Blood is taken at the doctor's office through a finger stick. (references) | ||
First, the doctor examines the rectum with a gloved, lubricated finger. (references) | ||
Business | There are some efforts to introduce finger print recognition in authentication. (references) | |
This biosensor - protected by international patents - recognizes and rejects finger surrogates with which intruders may attempt to compromise the system. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Benin | For example, on March 22, the day of the runoff election for the presidency, police beat and severed the finger of opposition National Assembly deputy Valentin Somasse. (references) |
Worker Rights | Ecuador | In addition to being provided with an inadequate diet, the youths were denied proper medical care and one girl had to have her finger amputated. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JEWS-:HARP:, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger. |
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Dennis Miller | In fact, we are now unwilling to lift a finger unless it's to let another driver know what we think of him. |
Maureen O'Hara | Maybe that particular night. But I had the cartilage removed from all of my fingers and part of my first finger removed. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Even as we meet, the rest of the world is astounded by the pundits and finger pointers who are so down on us as a nation. |
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| "Finger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.75% of the time. "Finger" is used about 3,214 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.75% | 3,206 | 2,951 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,214 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "finger" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Finger | Last name | 1,000 | 7,616 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Finger Lakes Financial Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Finger, TN (city, FIPS 26160) |
Expressions using "finger": Auricular finger ♦ baseball finger ♦ big finger ♦ blubber finger ♦ burn one's finger ♦ cut one's finger ♦ Ear finger ♦ finger alphabet ♦ Finger bar ♦ Finger board ♦ finger bowl ♦ finger breadth ♦ finger cot ♦ finger cymbals ♦ finger dexterity ♦ finger drains ♦ Finger flower ♦ finger food ♦ Finger glass ♦ finger grass ♦ finger guard ♦ finger hole ♦ Finger Injuries ♦ finger jointed plywood ♦ finger man ♦ finger mark ♦ finger millet ♦ finger nail ♦ Finger nut ♦ finger of god ♦ finger paint ♦ finger painting ♦ finger plate ♦ Finger post ♦ finger print ♦ finger rafted ice ♦ Finger reading ♦ finger screw ♦ Finger shell ♦ finger skirt ♦ Finger sponge ♦ finger stall ♦ Finger steel ♦ finger trouble ♦ finger wave ♦ first finger ♦ fish finger ♦ Five Finger Kung Fu ♦ fore finger ♦ frisbee finger ♦ hairy finger grass ♦ have a finger in a pie ♦ have a finger in every pie ♦ have a finger in the pie ♦ index finger ♦ Lady's finger ♦ lay a finger upon ♦ lay one's finger on ♦ little finger ♦ long finger ♦ medium finger ♦ middle finger ♦ not lay a finger on ♦ not stir a finger ♦ not to lift a finger ♦ pinkie finger ♦ place the finger on the lips ♦ pull smb.'s finger out ♦ put one's finger on ♦ put one's finger on smth. ♦ put one's finger on the weak spot ♦ ring finger ♦ Scandinavian blubber finger ♦ scour finger ♦ seal finger ♦ sealer's finger ♦ select finger ♦ selecting finger ♦ selection finger ♦ shake one's finger ♦ shake one's finger at ♦ shut one's finger ♦ shut one's finger in the door ♦ Spaek finger ♦ speck finger ♦ sticky finger ♦ stir a finger ♦ striping finger ♦ stripper finger ♦ the middle finger ♦ To have a finger in ♦ To turn around one's finger ♦ trigger finger ♦ tulip finger ♦ turn smb. round one's little finger ♦ twist smb. around one's finger ♦ twist smb. round one's finger ♦ wag one's finger at ♦ wag smb.'s finger at smb. ♦ with a wet finger ♦ zinc finger. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "finger": finger-alphabet, finger-and-thumb, finger-bone, finger-bones, finger-bowl, finger-bowls, finger-clicking, finger-connection, finger-containing, finger-counting, finger-crack, finger-crossing, finger-curled, finger-dried, finger-dry, finger-drying, finger-end, finger-ended, finger-ends, finger-feeds, finger-fish, finger-flicked, finger-flicks, finger-flips, finger-flowers, finger-four, finger-gesture, finger-guard, finger-hold, finger-hole, finger-holes, finger-in-air, finger-in-the-ear, finger-jabbing, finger-lickin', finger-licking, finger-light, finger-like, finger-load, finger-marks, finger-moving, finger-nail, finger-nails, finger-paint, finger-painted, finger-paintings, finger-pick, finger-picked, finger-pickin', finger-picking, finger-plate, finger-plug, finger-pointing, finger-pointing syndrome, finger-print, finger-printed, finger-printers, finger-printing, finger-prints, finger-reading, finger-rest, finger-ring, finger-rings, finger-roll, finger-rubbing, finger-searing, finger-shaped, finger-sized, finger-snap, finger-socket, finger-speed, finger-spell, finger-spelling, finger-stained, finger-stall, finger-strike, finger-sweep, finger-tapping, finger-tight, finger-tip, finger-tipped, finger-tips, finger-wagging, finger-waved, finger-wiggle, finger-work, finger-wrestling, finger-written. | |
Ending with "finger": dirty-finger, fat-finger, fish-finger, five-finger, fore-finger, four-finger, index-finger, lady's-finger, locking-finger, Marsh five-finger, middle-finger, one-finger, single-finger, three-finger, trigger-finger, twig-finger, two-finger, wedding-finger, zn-finger. | |
Containing "finger": dip-the-finger-in-the-water-and-let's-talk-about-the-test-match, five-finger exercise, ten-finger interface, third-finger-of-the-left-hand, three-finger salute, zinc-finger-dna. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
finger | 1,621 | eleven finger good lyrics times | 114 |
finger lake | 1,132 | finger bang | 112 |
finger eleven | 1,090 | finger lake ny | 104 |
middle finger | 545 | anal finger | 96 |
finger a girl | 451 | stiff little finger | 94 |
finger furniture | 446 | finger in my ass | 90 |
trigger finger | 342 | numb finger | 88 |
finger puppet | 337 | finger krakow | 87 |
sticky finger | 326 | finger lake community college | 87 |
finger food | 323 | 20 finger | 86 |
finger 11 | 175 | finger sandwich | 85 |
eleven finger lyrics | 172 | numbness in finger | 84 |
finger hut | 171 | broken finger | 83 |
finger lake times | 163 | finger cot | 78 |
pussy finger | 154 | gold finger | 77 |
finger my ass | 151 | barbecue finger sticky | 73 |
finger middle picture | 146 | finger lake race track | 71 |
finger food recipe | 140 | middle finger pic | 68 |
the finger | 117 | arts center finger lake performing | 68 |
finger lake new york | 114 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "finger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vinger. (various references) | |
Albanian | gisht (dactyl, digit, digital, hand, spindle, stall, toe). (various references) | |
Arabic | مس (befall, contact, feel, graze, handle, impinge, palpate, tip, touch, twiddle), مؤشر (hand, index, indicator, marked, point, signal, telltale), لمس (fell, handle, perceive, sense, touch), عزف مستعينا بأصابعه, الاصبع, إصبع (key), أصبع (digit, piggy), أشار بالاصبع, أشر بالأصبع. (various references) | |
Asturian | deu. (various references) | |
Aymara | luk'ana. (various references) | |
Basque | hatz. (various references) | |
Bemba | umunwe. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mookítsis. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стрелка (arrow, cursor, hand, index, indicator, needle, pointer, rise, shunt, switch), свиря (blare, chime, grind, perform, pipe, play, sing, tune), резе (bar, bolt, key, latch), въртя в ръцете си (fidget), вземам подкуп, опипвам (feel, feel about, fumble, grope, handle), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), пръст (clay, clod, digit, dirt, earth, hand, marl, mould, soil, toe), палец (cam, cog, locking-finger, pawl, pollex, thumb), пипам с пръсти. (various references) | |
Catalan | dit (said). (various references) | |
Cebuano | tudlo. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kálulot. (various references) | |
Chinese | 手指 . (various references) | |
Cornish | býs. (various references) | |
Czech | fízl (informer, nark, snooper), ruèièka (needle, pointer), prst (dactyl, digit), ohmatat (feel). (various references) | |
Danish | finger (flicker, grain finger, guard, guard tooth, passenger pier, pier). (various references) | |
Dutch | vinger (guard, guard tooth). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | ruca. (various references) | |
Esperanto | fingrumi (handle), fingro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fingur. (various references) | |
Farsi | میله برامدگی , زبانه (Prong, Tongue), انگشت زدن , انگشت (Digit), باندازه یک انگشت . (various references) | |
Finnish | sormi. (various references) | |
French | doigt. (various references) | |
Frisian | finger. (various references) | |
German | Finger (dactyl, digit, fingers). (various references) | |
Greek | δάκτυλο (guard, guard tooth). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gisht (toe). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אצבע (digit, forefinger). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ujj (digit, sleeve). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fingur, puti. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jari, gemak. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | tikkiit. (various references) | |
Italian | dito (dactyl, digit, fingers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 指. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フィンガー , しゅし (gist, idea, meaning, motive, object, opinion, pit, seed), ゆび, てのゆび. (various references) | |
Kongo | nlembo. (various references) | |
Korean | 손가락 (digit). (various references) | |
Lombard | did. (various references) | |
Macedonian | prst. (various references) | |
Malay | jari. (various references) | |
Manx | spaag (club, club cards, club foot, foot of bird, hand of clock, hoof, paddle, spattle), mairaghey (fingering, strum, strumming, thumb). (various references) | |
Maori | maikuku. (various references) | |
Maya | aal kab. (various references) | |
Norwegian | finger. (various references) | |
Occitan | det. (various references) | |
Papiamen | dede. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingerfay.(various references) | |
Polish | palec. (various references) | |
Portuguese | dedo (digit, digital). (various references) | |
Provencal | det. (various references) | |
Romanian | mişca un deget, lua (acquire, assume, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contact, contract, draw, extract, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, load, Mount, nim, pick, pick up, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), juca pe degete, indicator (guide, indicator, indicatory, needle, sign, telltale), deget (digit, inch, Mark, toe), cânta la un instrument de percuţie, bolţ (bolt, gudgeon, pin), ştift (cotter, nail, peg, stud), atinge cu degetul. (various references) | |
Romansch | det. (various references) | |
Romany | nay. (various references) | |
Ruanda | intoki. (various references) | |
Russian | туше (touche), трогать пальцами, трогать (affect, handle, move, palm, paw, reach, tamper, touch), штифт (dowel, peg, stud, tag), показывать палец, палец (cog, dactyl, digit, pin, stud). (various references) | |
Samoan | tamaimailima. (various references) | |
Scottish | meur (bough;, branch, toe). (various references) | |
Sepedi | monwana. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukrasti (filch, lift, pilfer, purloin, rob, snitch, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), prst (digit), podvlačiti prstom, označiti kao žrtvu, dodirivati (feel, palm, touch), dirati (touch). (various references) | |
Shona | munwe. (various references) | |
Sicilian | iditu. (various references) | |
Spanish | dedo (digit). (various references) | |
Sranan | finga. (various references) | |
Swahili | kidole (toe). (various references) | |
Swazi | umú-no. (various references) | |
Swedish | finger (digit), tumma på (compromise with), spela på. (various references) | |
Tagalog | dalirì. (various references) | |
Thai | แตะต้อง (lay a finger on, lay a hand on), ทำร้าย (eat into, injure, lay a finger on, lay a hand on), การขโมยของจากร้านค้า (five finger shuffle). (various references) | |
Turkish | parmakla göstermek (point at), parmak ile dokunmak, parmak (digit, hand, hook, toe), muhbir (delator, denunciator, finger man, informant, informer, intelligencer, nark, rat, reporter, setter, snout, split, squealer, squealler, stooge, stool pigeon, tipster), ispiyoncu (denunciator, finger man, fink, informant, informer, rat, snout, split, spy, squealler, stool pigeon, telltale), ibre (cursor, hand, index, needle, pointer), ellemek (feel, grope, handle, paw, play with, touch), ele vermek (betray, blow the whistle on, delate, give away, give up, grass, grass on smb., peach against, peach on, put on the scent, sell, shop, split on), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references) | |
Turkmen | barmak (go, toe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | торкати (palp, tamper), покажчик (alphabet, cursor, designator, indicator, pointer, stile), палець (dactyl, digit, nose). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thoải mái (airily, airy, comfortable, easily, easy, off-hand, off-handed). (various references) | |
Welsh | bysio, bys (hand of dial, toe), bodio (thumb). (various references) | |
Yucatec | u yaal a k'ab, aal (burdensome, heavy, onerous, toe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u-si. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | dactylos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | digiti, digitis, digito, digitorum, digitos, digitum, digitus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ... erezvô, dishti. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | finger. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 20, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eita legei tw qwma fere ton daktulon sou wde kai ide taV ceiraV mou kai fere thn ceira sou kai bale eiV thn pleuran mou kai mh ginou apistoV alla pistoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deinde dicit Thomae infer digitum tuum huc et vide manus meas et adfer manum tuam et mitte in latus meum et noli esse incredulus sed fidelis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Syððen he sayde to thomase. Doþine finger hyder. & ge-seoh mine handæ. & nim þine hand & do on mine siden. & ne beoþu un-ge-leafful. ac ge-leafful. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Afterward he seith to Thomas, Putte in here thi fyngur, and se myn hondis, and putte hidur thin hond, and putte in to my side, and nyle thou be vnbileueful, but feithful. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | After that sayde he to Thomas: bringe thy fynger hether and se my hondes and bringe thy honde and thrust it into my syde and be not faythlesse but belevynge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he said to Thomas, Put out your finger, and see my hands; and put your hand here into my side: and be no longer in doubt but have belief. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 20, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miingon kang Tomas, "Ihikap dinhi ang imong tudlo, ug tan-awa ang akong mga kamot; ambi ang imong kamot ug ipasulod kini sa akong kilid. Ayaw na nianang pagkadili matinoohon, hinonoa magmatinoohon ka." |
| Chinese | 就 對 多 馬 說 、 伸 過 你 的 指 頭 來 、 摸 （ 摸 原 文 作 看 ） 我 的 手 ． 伸 出 你 的 手 來 、 探 入 我 的 肋 旁 ． 不 要 疑 惑 、 總 要 信 。 |
| Croatian | Zatim æe Tomi: "Prinesi prst ovamo i pogledaj mi ruke! Prinesi ruku i stavi je u moj bok i ne budi nevjeran nego vjeran." |
| Danish | Derefter siger han til Thomas: "Ræk din Finger hid, og se mine Hænder, og ræk din Hånd hid, og stik den i min Side, og vær ikke vantro, men troende!" |
| Dutch | Daarna zeide Hij tot Thomas: Breng uw vinger hier, en zie Mijn handen, en breng uw hand, en steek ze in Mijn zijde; en zijt niet ongelovig, maar gelovig. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän sanoi Tuomaalle: "Ojenna sormesi tänne ja katso minun käsiäni, ja ojenna kätesi ja pistä se minun kylkeeni, äläkä ole epäuskoinen, vaan uskovainen". |
| French | Puis il dit à Thomas: Avance ici ton doigt, et regarde mes mains; avance aussi ta main, et mets-la dans mon côté; et ne sois pas incrédule, mais crois. |
| German | Darnach spricht er zu Thomas: Reiche deinen Finger her und siehe meine Hände, und reiche dein Hand her und lege sie in meine Seite, und sei nicht ungläubig, sondern gläubig! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian Yesus berkata kepada Tomas, "Lihatlah tangan-Ku, dan taruhlah jarimu di sini. Ulurkan tanganmu dan taruhlah di lambung-Ku. Jangan ragu-ragu lagi, tetapi percayalah!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu Ia pun bersabda kepada Tomas, "Ulurkanlah jarimu, lihatlah tangan-Ku, dan ulurkanlah tanganmu serta letakkanlah di rusuk-Ku, dan janganlah engkau syak, melainkan yakinlah." |
| Maori | Katahi ia ka mea ki a Tamati, Totoro mai tou matihao, kia kite hoki koe i oku ringa; totoro mai hoki tou ringa, ka kuhu ki toku kaokao: aua e whakateka, engari me whakapono. |
| Norwegian | Derefter sier han til Tomas: Rekk din finger hit, og se mine hender, og rekk din hånd hit og stikk den i min side, og vær ikke vantro, men troende! |
| Portuguese | Depois disse a Tomé: Chega aqui o teu dedo, e vê as minhas mãos; chega a tua mão, e mete-a no meu lado; e não mais sejas incrédulo, mas crente. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a zis lui Toma: ,,Adu-yi degetul kncoace, wi uitq-te la mknile Mele; wi adu-yi mkna, wi pune -o kn coasta Mea; wi nu fi necredincios, ci credincios.`` |
| Russian | рПФПН ЗПЧПТЙФ жПНЕ: РПДБК РЕТУФ ФЧПК УАДБ Й РПУНПФТЙ ТХЛЙ нПЙ; РПДБК ТХЛХ ФЧПА Й ЧМПЦЙ Ч ТЕВТБ нПЙ; Й ОЕ ВХДШ ОЕЧЕТХАЭЙН, ОП ЧЕТХАЭЙН. |
| Shuar | Nuyá Tumasan Tímiayi "Winia uwejur iisam ame uwejem awaintiuata. Núnismek winia paerui uwejem awaintiuam Iistá. Tura arantutsuk nekas Enentáimtursata." |
| Spanish | Luego dijo a Tomás: --Pon tu dedo aquí y mira mis manos; pon acá tu mano y métela en mi costado; y no seas incrédulo sino creyente. |
| Swahili | Kisha akamwambia Thoma, "Lete kidole chako hapa uitazame mikono yangu; lete mkono wako ukautie ubavuni mwangu. Usiwe na mashaka, ila amini!" |
| Swedish | Sedan sade han till Tomas: "Räck hit dit finger, se här äro mina händer; och räck hit din hand, och stick den i min sida. Och tvivla icke, utan tro." |
| Uma | Oti toe, na'uli' mpo'uli' -ki Tomas: "Tu'u-mi karawe-nu hi rei, pai' hilo pakua' to hi pale-ku. Mai pale-nu, nupe'unco' hi rala jaloa to hi lumpeha-ku. Neo' -pi morara' nono-nu. Pangala' -mi!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "finger": fingerboard, fingerboards, fingered, fingerer, fingerers, fingerhold, fingerholds, fingering, fingerings, fingerlike, fingerling, fingerlings, fingernail, fingernails, fingerpick, fingerpicked, fingerpicking, fingerpickings, fingerpicks, fingerpost, fingerposts, fingerprint, fingerprinted, fingerprinting, fingerprintings, fingerprints, fingers, fingertip, fingertips. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "finger": befinger, forefinger, ladyfinger, wharfinger. (additional references) | |
Words containing "finger": befingered, befingering, befingers, butterfingered, butterfingers, forefingers, ladyfingers, wharfingers. (additional references) | |
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"Finger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fager, Fagner, fanga, fange, Fengu, Fiegel, figer, figger, figner, figre, Finberg, finert, Fingari, Fingas, finged, fingere, fingerful, fingery, fingher, fingry, finguer, fingy, finker, Finler, Fongeru, fringer, fungir, pinger, Yinger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "finger" (pronounced fi"ngger) |
| 4 | -i" ng g er | linger. |
| 3 | -ng g er | anger, fishmonger, forefinger, gangbanger, hunger, longer, monger, warmonger, younger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fringe. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: feign, finer, grief, infer, reign, renig. | |
-2 letters: fern, fine, fire, firn, frig, gien, girn, grin, neif, reif, rein, rife, ring. | |
-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, fen, fer, fie, fig, fin, fir, gen, gie, gin, ire, ref, reg, rei, rif, rig, rin. | |
-4 letters: ef, en, er, if, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: fearing, feigner, fingers, flinger, foreign, freeing, fringed, fringes, gunfire, kerfing, reefing, reffing. | |
+2 letters: befinger, befringe, briefing, feigners, ferrying, feruling, fevering, figurine, finagler, fingered, fingerer, firefang, fleering, flingers, florigen, forewing, forgiven, freaking, freezing, freshing, fretting, frighten, fringier, gentrify, gunfires, hangfire, infringe, offering, refacing, refiling, refining, refiring, refixing, reflying, refrying, refuging, refusing, refuting, reifying, wafering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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