percussion
pleximetry
pulp
thumbpiece
wristbanding
percussible
thumb
bioinstrument
forepaw
ball of the thumb
finger
stall
grasper
probe
palpometer
articulograph
scraper
monodactylous
scrabble
backhand
pair of tweezers
microtomographer
pair of pincers
pincer
spanner
sulcus
tweezer
wrench
esthesiometer
manubrium
pair of pliers
pliers
transcarpal
oral
stamp
rub up against
tricorder
limnimeter
wing
scoop
cautery
fingerprint
fingerstick
body scan
reflex hammer
splint
winder
conchotome
handboard
pinch
fingerpick
unguis
stomatoscope
thumbling
tentacle
appendicular
turgometer
kinetocardiograph
fingerprinting
computed axial tomography
neurothesiometer
unvisor
elbow bone
prearm
ulna
cyborg
thumbed
wrist pad
axial
fourchette
handlock
budder
loose-handed
palpate
tomographer
arm
thumblike
claw
tappable
dactyl
nailfold
thumbtack
chuck
digit
palmprint
appendage
instrument
handrest
half glove
applied anatomy
hold
neurologger
clinical anatomy
sensor
head-scratcher
percussible
monodactylous
transcarpal
appendicular
thumbed
axial
loose-handed
thumblike
tappable
percussion
pleximetry
pulp
thumbpiece
wristbanding
bioinstrument
forepaw
ball of the thumb
finger
stall
grasper
probe
palpometer
articulograph
scraper
backhand
pair of tweezers
microtomographer
pair of pincers
pincer
spanner
sulcus
tweezer
wrench
esthesiometer
manubrium
pair of pliers
pliers
oral
stamp
tricorder
limnimeter
wing
scoop
cautery
fingerprint
fingerstick
body scan
reflex hammer
splint
winder
conchotome
handboard
fingerpick
unguis
stomatoscope
thumbling
tentacle
turgometer
kinetocardiograph
fingerprinting
computed axial tomography
neurothesiometer
elbow bone
ulna
cyborg
wrist pad
fourchette
handlock
budder
tomographer
arm
thumb
claw
dactyl
nailfold
digit
palmprint
appendage
instrument
handrest
half glove
applied anatomy
hold
neurologger
clinical anatomy
sensor
head-scratcher
thumb
scrabble
rub up against
pinch
unvisor
prearm
palpate
finger
thumbtack
chuck
noun
- The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad.
- A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
- A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
- The very soft tissue in the spleen.
- A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
- The soft center of a tooth.
- A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation.
- The soft center of a fruit.
verb
adj
verb
- To touch or cover with the thumb.
- To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
- To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
- To hitchhike
- To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
- To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
noun
noun
- Something similar in shape to the human finger
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- A person.
- An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
- Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
- Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
- Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
verb
- To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.
- To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
noun
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
verb
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an exploratory action or expedition
verb
noun
- The reverse side of the human hand.
- Handwriting that leans to the left
- the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
- the hand towards the back of the board.
- a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
verb
adj
noun
- A physical examination of the mouth.
- A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
adj
- Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
- Done or taken by the mouth.
- Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
- Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
- Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
- Relating to the mouth.
- Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
- Not having reached the stage of literacy.
- Spoken rather than written.
noun
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- A device for stamping designs.
- A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
- A tattoo.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
verb
- To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- To mark; to impress.
- To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To apply postage stamps to.
- To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
noun
- Human arm.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
noun
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- A device to immobilize a body part.
- A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
- A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
- A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
- A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
- Synonym of splent coal
verb
noun
- A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.
- A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.
- A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
- A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.
- A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.
- An artist's palette.
- A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.
- A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.
verb
verb
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- To arrest or capture.
- To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- To seize; to grip; to bite.
noun
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- An arrest.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
verb
adj
- Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ
- Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
- oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond.
noun
noun
- A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.
- The wishbone or furculum of birds
- The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
- A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
- The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.
- An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
noun
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- Power; might; strength; support.
adj
verb
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
noun
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
verb
- To touch or tap gently.
- To discard, to throw away.
- To vomit.
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To jilt; to dump.
- To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- To make a clucking sound.
noun
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
- A gentle touch or tap.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- A casual throw.
noun
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- A measuring or displaying device.
verb
noun
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
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