| slovo | definícia |
fingered
(encz) | fingered, adj: |
Fingered
(gcide) | Fingered \Fin"gered\, a.
1. Having fingers.
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2. (Bot.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.
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3. (Mus.) Marked with figures designating which finger should
be used for each note.
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Fingered
(gcide) | Finger \Fin"ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fingered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Fingering.]
1. To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
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Let the papers lie;
You would be fingering them to anger me. --Shak.
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2. To touch lightly; to toy with.
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3. (Mus.)
(a) To perform on an instrument of music.
(b) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide
the fingers in playing.
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4. To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin. --Shak.
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5. To execute, as any delicate work.
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fingered
(wn) | fingered
adj 1: having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in
combination; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-
fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters" [ant:
fingerless] |
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lightfingered
(mass) | light-fingered
- vreckársky |
butterfingered
(encz) | butterfingered,nemotorný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fingered
(encz) | fingered, adj: |
five-fingered maidenhair fern
(encz) | five-fingered maidenhair fern, n: |
get fingered
(encz) | get fingered, |
light-fingered
(encz) | light-fingered,kapsářský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
nimble-fingered
(encz) | nimble-fingered, adj: |
Butter-fingered
(gcide) | butterfingered \but"ter*fin`gered\, Butter-fingered
\But"ter-fin`gered\, a.
Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not
skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
Syn: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed.
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butterfingered
(gcide) | butterfingered \but"ter*fin`gered\, Butter-fingered
\But"ter-fin`gered\, a.
Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not
skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
Syn: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed.
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Light-fingered
(gcide) | Light-fingered \Light"-fin`gered\ (l[imac]t"f[i^][ng]`g[~e]rd),
a.
Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering;
addicted to petty thefts. --Fuller.
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nimble-fingered
(gcide) | nimble-fingered \nimble-fingered\ adj.
same as light-fingered; thievish; pilfering.
Syn: light-fingered.
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Unfingered
(gcide) | Unfingered \Unfingered\
See fingered. |
Web-fingered
(gcide) | Web-fingered \Web"-fin`gered\, a.
Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of
their length.
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butterfingered
(wn) | butterfingered
adj 1: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the
hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance";
"ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely
empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor
creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling,
butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed] |
fingered
(wn) | fingered
adj 1: having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in
combination; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-
fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters" [ant:
fingerless] |
five-fingered maidenhair fern
(wn) | five-fingered maidenhair fern
n 1: hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent
recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
[syn: American maidenhair fern, {five-fingered maidenhair
fern}, Adiantum pedatum] |
light-fingered
(wn) | light-fingered
adj 1: having nimble fingers literally or figuratively;
especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-
fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank
vault"- Harry Hansen; "the light-fingered
thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the
era"- Time [syn: light-fingered, nimble-fingered] |
nimble-fingered
(wn) | nimble-fingered
adj 1: having nimble fingers literally or figuratively;
especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-
fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank
vault"- Harry Hansen; "the light-fingered
thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the
era"- Time [syn: light-fingered, nimble-fingered] |
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