verb
- Feel or handle with the fingers.
- usage: "finger the binding of the book"
- Examine by touch.
- usage: "Feel this soft cloth"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
- Search for on the computer.
- usage: "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
- synonyms: finger
- Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments.
- synonyms: finger
adjective
- Having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination.
- usage: "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters"
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