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The finger next to the thumb
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forefinger
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Word definitions for forefinger in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the finger next to the thumb [syn: index , index finger ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forefinger \Fore"fin`ger\, n. The finger next to the thumb; the index finger.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context human anatomy English) The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from fore- + finger (n.). So called because it is considered the first next to the thumb.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB hold ▪ He also held his forefinger to his lips, indicating that they might be overheard. ▪ She was the Amazon, with a crimson headdress, eyeing the miniature man she held between thumb and forefinger . EXAMPLES FROM ...
Usage examples of forefinger.
Major Grover stepped in front of him and leveled a forefinger straight at the crimson Babbitt nose.
For a moment she traced the beachline with her forefinger, reading the penciled names from the paper.
Glancing around, Agent Brakeman reached under the body of the machine, inserting his forefinger in a concealed whorl lock.
The only accompaniment came from another man with miniature cymbals made from hollowed nutshells on his thumbs and forefingers.
Italian pottery with Deruta stamped on the bottom--between the thumb and forefinger of each hand.
He expressed himself in this sense, with impressive disjointedness, forefinger aloft.
He removed the stopper, made Domini take off her glove, touched her bare hand with the stopper, then with his forefinger gently rubbed the drop of perfume which had settled on her skin till it was slightly red.
For a drawplate, she used her other magical hand, thumb and forefinger overlapping to form a tiny opening.
The sight of her diamond drew exclamations, and Gunter laughed, running one thick forefinger beneath the black cord.
The khagan obeyed without question, and did not draw back when the shaman cut his forefinger.
Stuart Macclesfield cleared his throat and Colonel Beckett pinched the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger.
Hota apologized for its sorry condition, but Magali paid no attention to the disarray and walked over to the wall beside his bed and began to inspect the weathered gray boards, running her forefinger along the black complexities of their grain, appearing to admire them as though they were made of the finest marble.
It was like a well-brought-up cousin of that daft carry-on with the forefinger and the pinkie that metalheads did.
Oswald Brunies takes each one, even the most contemptible run of the millstream, between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand, holds it away from, then up to light, takes a magnifying glass secured by an elastic band from the breast pocket of his peat-brown and partly threadbare jacket, moves the glass on stretching elastic slowly and expertly into place between pebble and eye, then, elegantly and with full confidence in the elastic, lets the glass spring back into his breast pocket.
He sat for a moment with his palms pressed together in a prayerlike attitude, forefingers lightly touching his lips.