thumb

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

thumbsthumthumethumbe

1.
The shortest and thickest digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
2.
(graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
a scroll-bar thumb
3.
(Internet, colloquial)A thumbnail picture.
4.
A top hatch plate for covering an excavator bucket, used to keep material in the digger bucket after scooping it up, and not letting it spill out.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

thumbs

V_ing/Gerund

thumbing

V_ed/pp

thumbedthum

1.
(transitive)To touch or cover with the thumb.
to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
2.
(transitive)(transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
thumb through
I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
Đồng nghĩa: peruse, flip through
3.
To gesture with the thumb, for example when flagging a ride.
4.
(travel) To hitchhike.
So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
5.
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
6.
To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
7.
To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

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Đồng nghĩa

peruseflip throughdigit Ifirst digitpollex thumby browse leaf page

Cùng gốc / liên quan

all fingers and thumbsall thumbsball of the thumbbethumbbite one's thumbthumb-sizedwith a thumb up one's bumblack thumbbrown thumbbutcher's thumbChinese thumb cuffclimb up one's thumbe-thumbfash one's thumbfinger and thumbgamekeeper's thumbget the thumbgreen thumbhop-o'-my-thumblady's thumb

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (thumb), from Old English þūma (thumb), from *þūmō (thumb), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (thumb), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (to grow).