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You can picture finger as one of the long thin parts at the end of your hand. Everything grows from that: the glove-part and finger-shaped things copy its shape; a whole crowd of use what a finger physically does — touch, point, cross, lift, wrap — to talk about helping, blaming, hoping, or controlling; and the verb is simply the finger in action: touching something, or pointing someone out to the police.

可以把 finger 想成手掌末端那幾根細長的部分。一切都從這裡長出來：手套的指套、細長像手指的東西，都是借它的形狀…更多收起可以把 finger 想成手掌末端那幾根細長的部分。一切都從這裡長出來：手套的指套、細長像手指的東西，都是借它的形狀；一大群片語則拿手指實際會做的動作——碰、指、交叉、抬、纏——去談幫忙、責怪、祈願或操控；而動詞就是手指在動作：去摸某物，或把人指認給警方。

原始詞典資料45 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Fingername

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A city in Tennessee.

fingernoun/ˈfɪŋɡəː/

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    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.
    • [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.
  • 2

    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly

    • The starfish eats with five fingers.
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    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

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    Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly

    • ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
  • 7

    cookingfoodlifestyleSomething similar in shape to the human finger

    • chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
    • By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
  • 8

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesSomething similar in shape to the human 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.
另外 25 個記錄的用法
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    obsoleteregionalbiologybotanynatural-sciencesSomething similar in shape to the human finger

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    Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly

    • a finger of land; a finger of smoke
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    biologybotanynatural-sciencesSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

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    obsoleteanatomymedicinesciencesSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

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    historicalSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

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    Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 15

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

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    computingcomputing-theoryengineeringSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

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    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.
  • 18

    obsoleteSomething similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

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    obsoleteslangSomething similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

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    rareslangSomething similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

  • 21

    rareslangSomething similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

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    Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

    • The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
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    historicalunits-of-measureVarious units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

    • a piece of steel three fingers thick
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    historicalunits-of-measureVarious units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

  • 25

    historicalunits-of-measureVarious units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

  • 26

    units-of-measureVarious units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

    • Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
  • 27

    fashionlifestyleA part of a glove intended to cover a finger.

  • 28

    obsoleteinformalSkill 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
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    rareinformalSomeone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.

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    slangA person.

  • 31

    An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.

  • 32

    broadcastingmediaradioAny of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.

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    vulgarAn act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).

fingerverb/ˈfɪŋɡəː/

  • 1

    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.
    • I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
  • 2

    To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.

  • 3

    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.
    • "They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass.
  • 4

    lifestylesexsexualityTo 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.
    • 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 she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
  • 5

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.

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    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 […]
    • PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
  • 8

    obsoleteTo 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,
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    obsoleteTo execute, as any delicate work.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。