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
Oxford Dictionary
- (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
Oxford American Dictionary
- 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.
Oxford Dictionary
- any of various musical instruments, mainly of African origin, made from strips of metal ...
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- a set of lettered or marked grooves cut down the side of a book, especially a diary or ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- natural talent for growing plants; green fingers: you don't need a green thumb to grow them
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- 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
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