Finger

noun fingers

1. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals. Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
2. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly The starfish eats with five fingers.
3. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
4. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
5. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
6. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
7. Finger-shaped pieces of food. chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
8. A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger. An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
9. UK, obsolete, plural normally, regional Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
10. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly a finger of land; a finger of smoke
11. Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
12. obsolete A lobe of the liver.
13. historical The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
14. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
15. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).finger pier
16. Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
17. A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
18. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing. The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.
19. obsolete Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
20. US, obsolete, slang A policeman or prison guard.
21. US, rare, slang An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
22. US, rare, slang A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
23. figuratively That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion. The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
24. historical Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm). a piece of steel three fingers thick
25. historical A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
26. historical Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
27. An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it. Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
28. A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
29. informal, obsolete Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument. A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger
30. informal, rare Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
31. UK, slang A person.
32. especially An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
33. Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
34. vulgar An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).

Similar: toe, claw, talon, informant, finger, lupper, digit

verb fingers · fingering · fingered

1. transitive To identify or point out; to blame for something. This makes it quite difficult to finger specific gene variants, since any one variant contributes only tiny effects.
2. transitive To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
3. transitive To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers. Goe, get you gone: and let the papers lye: / You would be fingring them, to anger me.
4. transitive To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus. She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
5. transitive To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
6. transitive To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
7. Internet, transitive To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol. There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]
8. obsolete To steal; to purloin. in the dark / Grop'd I to finde out them; had my desire, / Finger'd their Packet, and in fine, withdrew / To mine owne roome againe,
9. obsolete, transitive To execute, as any delicate work.

proper noun

1. A surname.
2. A city in Tennessee.