finger – English noun declension

English noun forms of finger

Noun: finger
Singularfinger
Pluralfingers

Sample Sentences

  • Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
  • [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it. [1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:]
  • Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths. [1916, “The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit”, in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:]
  • In 1993 [Victor Candia] noticed that the fingers of his left hand were starting to curl up as he played [on his guitar]. It felt to him as if a magnet in his palm were preventing him from opening them. A week later, he could not play at all. [2014 March 29, “Don’t cramp my style”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8880:]
  • The starfish eats with five fingers. [1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, “The How and Why Library”, in Life, Section VIII:]
  • ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’... [1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, page 250:]
  • chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
  • By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating? [2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks:]
  • An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube. [1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, page 318:]
  • a finger of land; a finger of smoke
  • The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:19:]
  • The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
  • a piece of steel three fingers thick [1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:]
  • Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
  • A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger [1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *pénkʷe
3. From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”).
4. Cognate with West Frisian finger, German and Low German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish finger, Faroese and Icelandic fingur; see also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five. See: Middle English Nouns 'fynger', Old English Nouns 'finger', Dutch Nouns 'vinger'.

Verbs referencing "finger"

German Nouns Finger.