喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Old English finger, ultimately from the root of 'five'.

源自古英文 finger，最早的字根來自「五」，和 five 是遠親。

Wiktionary

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；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。

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同家族的字

n fingers

v fingered fingered fingering fingers

原始詞典資料45 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 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.
    • [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.
  • 3

    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

  • 4

    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

  • 5

    biologynatural-scienceszoologySimilar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

  • 6

    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
  • 9

    obsoleteregionalbiologybotanynatural-sciencesSomething similar in shape to the human finger

  • 10

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

    • a finger of land; a finger of smoke
  • 11

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 12

    obsoleteanatomymedicinesciencesSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 13

    historicalSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 14

    Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 15

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationSomething similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body

  • 16

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

  • 17

    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.

  • 19

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

  • 20

    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.

  • 22

    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.
  • 23

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

    • a piece of steel three fingers thick
  • 24

    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
  • 29

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

  • 30

    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.

  • 33

    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.

  • 6

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

  • 7

    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
  • 9

    obsoleteTo execute, as any delicate work.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • finger pier

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