Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The extreme end or tip of a finger.
- idiom (at (one's) fingertips) Readily or instantly available.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archery, a tip of leather or other material worn upon a drawing-finger to protect it from the friction of the bowstring.
- noun plural On the coast of southern California, a plant of the stonecrop family, Stylophyllum edule, with tufted cylindrical leaves the size of a lead-pencil. The Indians used the leaves as a salad.
- noun The end or tip of a finger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the end (tip) of a finger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The end of the
finger . - verb transitive to
move ordeflect with the fingertips
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the end (tip) of a finger
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there are the scars which recall happy moments: one on my fingertip from a knife that slipped when I was chopping onions too fast, cooking up a storm for the man I loved.
Lea Lane: Scars of a Life Lea Lane 2010
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Verification occurs when the entire fingertip is laid on the sensor.
Biometrics is No Guarantee For Secure Data | Impact Lab 2007
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
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You will find English speakers almost within fingertip reach.
nycanthro commented on the word fingertip
As an adjective it could connote the "ultramodern" sense of having all imaginable forms of human knowledge within the breadth of a few keystrokes.
Ex. "I thoroughly enjoy the fingertip accessibility of Wordie vocab."
March 5, 2009