Humans have two hands and tenfingers. Each hand has one thumb and fourfingers.
1750,W[illiam] Ellis,The Country Housewife's Family Companion[…], London: James Hodges; B. Collins,→OCLC,page157:
[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put herFinger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.
Eachfinger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all fourfingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
In 1993 [Victor Candia] noticed that thefingers of his left hand were starting to curl up as he played [on his guitar]. It felt to him as if a magnet in his palm were preventing him from opening them. A week later, he could not play at all.
By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets andfingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
(chemistry) Atube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of acold finger.
1996, Susan Trumbore,Mass Spectrometry of Soils, page318:
An oven is placed over thefinger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrexfinger is used, see Ref. 24), and a coldfinger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
(especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
2016,Joseph Henrich, chapter 6, inThe Secret of Our Success[…], Princeton: Princeton University Press,→ISBN:
This makes it quite difficult tofinger specific gene variants, since any one variant contributes only tiny effects.
2018 January, “Wild Things”, inNorth and South:
I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher tofinger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
(transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
"They have done a foolish thing," said I,fingering my wineglass.
1956,Anthony Burgess,Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page121:
Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted tofinger his moustache, but could not.
2009, Win Blevins,Dreams Beneath Your Feet, page135:
Feeling tender around the face, shefingered herself gingerly. Yes, it was swollen, very sore around the cheekbones, with dried blood on the outsides of her eye sockets, below her nostrils, and below one ear.
2007, Madeline Bastinado,A Talent for Surrender, page201:
Shefingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
2008, Thomas Wainwright, editor,Erotic Tales, page56:
She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as shefingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “finger”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
