Thin vs Finger - What's the difference?
thin | finger |
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
* Addison
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
* Dryden
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
* Francis Bacon
(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.
In transitive terms the difference between thin and finger
is that thin is to make thin or thinner while finger is to use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.As an adjective thin
is having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.As an adverb thin
is not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.As a proper noun Finger is
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English
Adjective
(thinner)- thin plate of metal
- thin paper
- thin board
- thin covering
- thin wire
- thin string
- thin person
- The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- a thin disguise
Synonyms
* reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See alsoAntonyms
* thickDerived terms
* into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thinNoun
(en noun)- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Verb
Derived terms
* thin outAdverb
(en adverb)- seed sown thin
- Spain is thin sown of people.
External links
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* 1000 English basic words ----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)
