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# fingertip

«fingertip» in Mova's school dictionary: **The very end of a finger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fingertip, fingertips)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The very end of a finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#m1)

2) At your fingertips: easy to reach or find, ready for you to use (information at your fingertips). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, fingertips have many nerve endings, so they are very sensitive to touch; blind people read Braille with their fingertips; fingerprints are on the fingertips. In everyday life you feel textures and test warmth with fingertips. In safety: keep fingertips away from car doors, scissors and blender blades. Phrases: at your fingertips, to your fingertips (completely), fingertip touch.

### examples

- Braille is read with the fingertips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x1)
- My fingertips went numb in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x2)
- Touch the fabric gently with your fingertips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x3)
- Every fingertip has its own pattern of lines called a fingerprint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x4)
- With a tablet, a whole library is at your fingertips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x5)
- Keep your fingertips away from the door hinge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x6)
- She was an artist to her fingertips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingertip/#x7)

### note

One word: fingertip. «At your fingertips» does not mean literally on your fingers — it means close and easy to use.

### 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/)
- [Skin even fights back against rubbing: a blister cushions a sore spot, and a guitarist's fingertips grow thick hard calluses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/4/)
- [In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fingertips, which is made up too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/30/)
- [Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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