finger

finger is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
5. transitive verb. To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
6. transitive verb. To touch lightly; to toy with.
7. transitive verb. To perform on an instrument of music.
8. transitive verb. To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
9. transitive verb. To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
10. transitive verb. To execute, as any delicate work.
11. intransitive verb. To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
12. noun. one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
13. noun. any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)

    "her fingers were long and thin"

14. noun. the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

    Synonyms: digit, fingerbreadth

15. verb. indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
16. verb. examine by touch

    "Feel this soft cloth!"

    "The customer fingered the sweater"

    Synonyms: feel

17. verb. feel or handle with the fingers

    "finger the binding of the book"

    Synonyms: thumb

18. verb. search for on the computer

    "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"

Synonyms

digit, fingerbreadth, feel, thumb

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in finger:

fringe

Common word forms

fingers, fingered, fingerer, fingering, fingerable, fingerless

Words from these letters

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