Terms vs Fingerwise - What's the difference?
terms | fingerwise |
In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
* 1889 , The English Illustrated Magazine (volume 6)
* 1921 , Wisconsin magazine of history (volume 4)
As a noun terms
is .As an adverb fingerwise is
in the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.fingerwise
English
Adverb
(-)- In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.
- The valleys make natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear like promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau