Finger vs Wing - What's the difference?
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(label) One of the long extremities of the hand, sometimes excluding the thumb.
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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).
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(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
To execute, as any delicate work.
An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
(slang) Human arm.
Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
Passage by flying; flight.
* Shakespeare
Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
* Shakespeare
A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
# (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
# (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
(British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
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(botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
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One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.
(lb) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
(lb) To fly.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
To add a wing (extra part) to.
(lb) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
(lb) To throw.
In transitive terms the difference between finger and wing
is that finger is to use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang while wing is to throw.As a proper noun Finger
is {{surname}.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.
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- 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 ----wing
English
(wikipedia)Alternative forms
* whing (obsolete) * weng (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- to take wing
- Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.
- Fiery expedition be my wing .
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- ? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )
