Finger vs Punch - What's the difference?
finger | punch |
(label) One of the long extremities of the hand, sometimes excluding the thumb.
* 1915 , (Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson), ,
* 1916 , The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit'', '':
* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-29, volume=410, issue=8880, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A piece of food resembling such an extremity.
Anything that does work of a finger, such as the pointer of a clock or watch, or a small projecting rod, wire, or piece in a mechanical device which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
(also finger pier) A walkway extending from a dock, an airport terminal, etc, used by passengers to board a waiting ship or aeroplane.
An amount of liquid, usually alcohol, in a glass, with the depth of a finger's length.
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
* Bishop (John Wilkins) (1614-1672)
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
* (1755-1838)
To identify or point out. Also put the finger on . To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, to finger.
To poke or probe with a finger or fingers.
* Shakespeare
* 2009 , Win Blevins, Dreams Beneath Your Feet , page 135:
To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
* 2007 , Madeline Bastinado, A Talent for Surrender , page 201:
* 2008 , Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales , page 56:
(music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
(music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
(computing) To query (a user's status) using the (Finger protocol).
* 1996 , "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware'', comp.archives.msdos.d, ''Usenet :
(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
To execute, as any delicate work.
(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 3
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
(uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
(uncountable) Impact.
(countable) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to punch.
To strike with one's fist.
(of cattle) To .
To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
*
* '>citation
*
To enter (information) on a device or system.
To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
To make holes in something
To thrust against; to poke.
(countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
(countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
(countable) A hole or opening created with a punch
(piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
To mark a ticket.
(uncountable) A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
As proper nouns the difference between finger and punch
is that finger is while punch is (british) a glove puppet who is the main character used in a punch and judy show.finger
English
Noun
(en noun)- We have five senses and five fingers' and five toes. The starfish eats with five ' fingers .
- 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.
Don’t cramp my style, passage=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.}}
- a piece of steel three fingers thick
- She has a good finger .
Derived terms
* at one's fingertips * burn one's fingers * butterfingers * cross one's fingers * fat-finger * finger alphabet * finger bowl * finger buffet * finger chip * finger dry * finger food * finger language * finger mark * finger millet * finger painting * finger pick * finger post * finger roll * finger wave * fingerboard * fingered * fingering * fingerling * fingermark * fingernail * finger-paint * fingerpicking * fingerplate * fingerpost * fingerprint * fingerspelling * fingerstall * fingertip * finger-wagging * fish finger * five-finger discount * five-finger exercise * forefinger * get one's finger out * get one's fingers onto * give the finger to * have a finger in every pie * have one's fingers in many pies * have one's fingers in the till * index finger * ladyfinger * lay a finger on * lift a finger * little finger * long finger * middle finger * one's fingers itch * point the finger at * pull one's finger on * put the finger on * putty in someone's fingers * ring finger * skirt finger * slip through one's fingers * snap one's fingers * split finger * sticky fingers * trigger finger * wag a finger (at) * work one's fingers to the bone * wrap around one's fingers * zinc fingerVerb
(en verb)- Let the papers lie; / You would be fingering them to anger me.
- Feeling tender around the face, she fingered herself gingerly. Yes, it was swollen, very sore around the cheekbones, with dried blood on the outsides of her eye sockets, below her nostrils, and below one ear.
- She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
- She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
- PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (sexual) fingerbang, fingerfuckSee also
* artiodactyl * dactyl * dactylography * dactylology * fingle * macrodactyly * perissodactyl * prestidigitation * pterodactylAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----punch
English
(wikipedia punch)Etymology 1
From (etyl) punchen, partially from (etyl) .Noun
citation, page= , passage=Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.}}
Synonyms
* (A strike with the fist) box, bunch of fives (UK) * oomph, pepHyponyms
* (A strike with the fist) jab, hook, uppercut, poundingDerived terms
* beat somebody to the punch * kidney punch * one-two punch * pleased as punch * pull punches * punch drunk * roll with the punches * Sunday punchSee also
* (A strike with the fist) slapVerb
(es)- If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.
- He punched a hit into shallow left field.
- to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow