Finger: Definition and part of speech

Finger

  1. n. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
  2. n. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. 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.
  5. v. t. To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
  6. v. t. To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
  7. v. t. To execute, as any delicate work.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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