Finger
One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
To touch lightly; to toy with.
To perform on an instrument of music.
To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
To execute, as any delicate work.
To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
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Finger Quotations
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Andy Warhol
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David Hume
Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Mike Tyson
Finger Translations
finger in Afrikaans is vinger
finger in Danish is finger
finger in Dutch is vinger
finger in Finnish is sormi
finger in French is digitale, chipoter, doigt
finger in German is Finger
finger in Italian is dito
finger in Portuguese is dedo
finger in Spanish is palpar, dedo
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