thumb
- IPA[θʌm]
英式
- the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.;the digit of primates or other mammals that corresponds to the human thumb.
- press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb;use one's thumb to indicate something
verb: thumb, 3rd person present: thumbs, gerund or present participle: thumbing, past tense: thumbed, past participle: thumbed
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名詞
- 1. the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.
- ▪ the digit of primates or other mammals that corresponds to the human thumb.
- ▪ the part of a glove that covers the thumb.
動詞
- 1. press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid open 同義詞
- ▪ use one's thumb to indicate something he thumbed towards the men behind him
- 2. turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb I've thumbed my address book and found quite a range of smaller hotels he was thumbing through 同義詞
- ▪ wear or soil (a book's pages) by repeated handling his dictionaries were thumbed and ink-stained
- 3. request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signalling with one's thumb three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift he was thumbing his way across France 同義詞
- (of a book, magazine, etc.) having been read often and bearing marks of frequent handling: they reread old volumes until they are thumbed and fragile elegant hardbacks, thumbed and adored
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- (of a book, magazine, etc.) having been read often and bearing marks of frequent handling: they reread old volumes until they are thumbed and fragile elegant hardbacks, thumbed and adored
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- the hero of an old children's story, the son of a ploughman who was only as tall as his ...
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- the hero of an old children's story, the son of a ploughman who was only as tall as his ...
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- a tall walking stick with a forked thumb rest at the top.
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- another term for wing nut
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- natural talent for growing plants; green fingers: you don't need a green thumb to grow them
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- a flash drive or USB stick.
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美式
- the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and ...
- press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb: as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid open
Oxford American Dictionary