Finger vs Tail - What's the difference?

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Finger is a related term of tail.

As a proper noun finger

is .

As a noun tail is

finger

English

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One of the long extremities of the hand, sometimes excluding the thumb.

* 1915 , (Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson), ,

We have five senses and five fingers' and five toes. The starfish eats with five ' fingers .

* 1916 , The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit'', '':

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.

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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)

a piece of steel three fingers thick

Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.

* (1755-1838)

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 finger

Verb

(en verb)
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

Let the papers lie; / You would be fingering them to anger me.

* 2009 , Win Blevins, Dreams Beneath Your Feet , page 135:

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.

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:

She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.

* 2008 , Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales , page 56:

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.

(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 :

PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.

(Shakespeare)

To execute, as any delicate work.

Synonyms

* (sexual) fingerbang, fingerfuck

Anagrams

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tail
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head'' and ''tail .
Noun
(en noun)
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Most primates have a tail and fangs.

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

* (rfdate), Harvey:

Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as , a long tail.

One who surreptitiously follows another.

(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g'', ''q'' or ''y .

(chiefly, in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

A sequence $(a_n)$ is said to be ''frequently $0$ '' if every tail of the sequence contains $0$ .

The buttocks or backside.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.

*, I.49:

They were wont to wipe their tailes .

(slang) The male member of a person or animal.

After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails''' were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent '''tail .

(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.

I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.

(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 13:

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail .

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

* (rfdate), Walter Scott:

"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."

(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

(surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(mining) A tailing.

(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

Synonyms
* ass, poontang, poon, tang, pussy, punani
Derived terms
* cat-o'-nine-tails * chase one's tail * coattail * cocktail * have the world by the tail * rattail * shirttail * tailback * tailcoat * tail covert * tail-end * tail feather * tail fin * tailgate * tail lamp * tail light * tail-off * tailpiece * tailpipe * tailplane * tail-race * tail-skid * tailspin * tailstock * tailwheel * tailwind * turn tail * wagtail * whitetail * yellowtail
See also
* caudal
Verb
(en verb)
To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tail that car!

(architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in'' or ''into

(nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

This vessel tails downstream.

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

* Fuller

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed , continued uncancelled.

To pull or draw by the tail.

(Hudibras)

Etymology 2
From (etyl), probably from a shortened form of entail .
Adjective

(legal) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

estate tail

Noun
(en noun)
(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tail male — limitation to male heirs

in tail — subject to such a limitation

Anagrams
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