What is the difference between hitchhike and thumb?
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To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road. Generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.
To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation, or Cultural Hitchhiking where a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.
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The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
(computing) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
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To touch or cover with the thumb.
To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
(travel) To hitchhike
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
* Macaulay
As verbs the difference between hitchhike and thumb
is that hitchhike is to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road. Generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination while thumb is to touch or cover with the thumb.As a noun thumb is
the short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.hitchhike
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Verb
(hitchhik)Synonyms
* hitch a ride * hitch * thumb a lift (UK ) * thumb a ride (US )See also
* hitchhikerthumb
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (digit) pollex, digit I, first digit (anatomy) ; thumby (colloquial)Hypernyms
* (digit) digit, fingerHyponyms
* (digit) opposable thumbDerived terms
(terms derived from the noun) * all fingers and thumbs * all thumbs * brown thumb * green thumb * opposable thumb * rule of thumb * stick out like a sore thumb * thumb a lift * thumb a ride * thumbboard * thumbnail * thumbpad * thumbprint * thumb-sketch or thumb sketch * thumbstick * thumb wrestle * thumbs up * under one's thumb * under the thumbVerb
(en verb)- to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
- I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
- So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
- He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs.
