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# finger

«finger» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the five long parts at the end of your hand (often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (finger, fingers); verb (finger, fingers, fingered — touch with fingers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) One of the five long parts at the end of your hand (often the thumb is counted separately). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#m1)

2) Something shaped like a finger: "fish fingers". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#m2)

3) As a verb, to touch or feel with your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#m3)

4) To slip through someone's fingers means to escape from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, we count on our fingers; ten fingers are why we count in tens. In science, fingers have nails and fingerprints, which are different for every person. In safety: keep fingers away from doors, blades, fans and animals' mouths. Phrases: fingerprint, fingertip, keep your fingers crossed, point a finger, lift a finger.

### examples

- I have five fingers on each hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x1)
- Count on your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x2)
- Keep your fingers away from the door hinge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x3)
- Everyone has different fingerprints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x4)
- Don't point your finger at people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x5)
- Fingers crossed we win! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x6)
- She cut her finger on the paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x7)
- He didn't lift a finger to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x8)
- I luckily slipped through her fingers.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/#x9)

### note

Plural "fingers". Usually we have 10 fingers including thumbs, 8 not counting thumbs. In maths problems, "fingers" can mean counting by ones.

### In the corpora

- [Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/6/)
- [Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practice full of mistakes trains the mistakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/11/)
- [Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/15/)
- [On the recorder, B, A and G are played with the left hand alone, using one, two and three fingers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/12/)
- [An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «finger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/finger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.