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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fingertip
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fingertip searchBritish English (= a careful search for clues by police officers)
▪ Police have started a fingertip search of the area and appealed for witnesses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
▪ We concentrate on what we feel with our wet fingertips, as we caress, with the moonlight as witness.
▪ Kirov felt it with his fingertips and rapped his knuckles against the main body of the sink unit.
▪ Surgeons learn through direct experience of individual cases - through what they see, hear, and feel at their fingertips.
▪ She felt his fingertips, cold and clammy with perspiration.
▪ He shuddered, feeling cold fingertips touch his nerves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Darla touched Tom's ear with her fingertip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A large part of the area was sealed off following the arrests as police carried out a fingertip search for bullets.
▪ Crumble butter with fingertips to coarse cornmeal-like consistency, keeping butter well-coated with flour to prevent it from becoming greasy.
▪ Gusts of freezing wind bite at exposed skin while stinging darts of cold assault gloved fingertips.
▪ Norm sat down and drummed his fingertips on the table.
▪ Traces of her red nail varnish, he noticed, could still be seen where her fingertips hadn't been eaten.
▪ Truman had unprecedented power at his fingertips and a program for the world that he believed was self-evidently good.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fingertip

fingertip \fingertip\ n. the end (tip) of a finger.

Wiktionary
fingertip

n. The tip of the human finger. vb. (context transitive English) to move or deflect with the fingertips

WordNet
fingertip

n. the end (tip) of a finger

Usage examples of "fingertip".

She did not want to say too much, but Vandene and Adeleas had more knowledge their fingertips than existed anywhere else but the White Tower, and more complications awaited her there than she cared to deal with now.

Just the whisper of his lips against each fingertip, sending her nerve endings ajangle like chimes caught in the wind.

Dropping her end of the cable to fall beside Akim, Jin lowered herself over the edge to hang by her fingertips.

Tongues of flame were working their way up her body, filling her tummy with a blazing inferno, and tingling all the way down to her fingertips.

She followed Griffith into a small, well-lit roomtouching the antistatic pad, and receiving the expected snap on her fingertips.

With butterfly-soft touches of his fingertips, Arian traced the outline of her neck, from shoulder to the tightly twisted towel wrapped around her hair.

Traversing the long dark upstairs halls, keeping my bearings by brushing fingertips against the plaster walls.

Yawning, she extended a pink-toed and frivolously befurred foot to wrap around his fingertip, her claws just pricking the surface of his skin.

These wilderness versions wear cowcatchers, their headlamps burn vividly, and insects touch like fingertips against the glass.

After that he had to lift and drag the rest of him out through the deadlight and, hanging by fingertips, work his way round, inch by inch, until it seemed possible to drop into the sea and escape hitting the screw.

She dipped into the little bag of dustlike granules she had found in his laboratory, and softly blew on her fingertips, sending the dust to settle over him in a powdery cloud.

I gasped when Bianca brought down the cleaver with unexpected swiftness, the deadly blade splitting the pomegranate a mere hairsbreadth from her fingertips.

In experiments I had already done with Professor Dean, I would insert my hand into the hole in the bag, and put three fingertips at the top of the film for the first exposure made with a timer for two seconds.

Hearts were touched with fingertips as Lali rode by, and the brawny, bearded Blade was the object of curious stares.

The chair included a lapboard with an imbedded touch screen that provided all of the fingertip controls he needed to monitor every section of the ship.