finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
digital communications technology | the design and construction of communications technology that transmits information in digital form |
bones castanets clappers finger cymbals | a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance |
digital-analog converter digital-to-analog converter | device for converting digital signals into analogue signals |
digital audiotape DAT | a digital tape recording of sound |
digital camera | a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction |
digital clock | a clock that displays the time of day digitally |
digital computer | a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits |
digital display alphanumeric display | a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters) |
digital plethysmograph | plethysmograph applied to a digit of the hand or foot to measure skin blood flow |
digital subscriber line DSL | a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds |
digital voltmeter | an electronic voltmeter that gives readings in digits |
digital watch | a watch with a digital display |
digitizer digitiser analog-digital converter analog-to-digital converter | device for converting analogue signals into digital signals |
finger | one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb |
finger bowl | small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table |
finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
finger paint fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
finger plate escutcheon scutcheon | a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers |
personal digital assistant PDA personal organizer personal organiser organizer organiser | a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks, can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. |
scanner digital scanner image scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
pulp cavity | the central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal) |
pulp | the soft inner part of a tooth |
digital arteries arteria digitalis | arteries in the hand and foot that supply the fingers and toes |
digital vein vena digitalis | one of the veins serving the fingers or toes |
finger | any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb), her fingers were long and thin |
index index finger forefinger | the finger next to the thumb |
ring finger annualry | the third finger (especially of the left hand) |
middle finger | the second finger, between the index finger and the ring finger |
little finger pinkie pinky | the finger farthest from the thumb |
digital communication data communication | electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers) |
manual alphabet finger alphabet | an alphabet used by the deaf, letters are represented by finger positions |
pulp pulp magazine | an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper |
finger scan finger scanning | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically |
musical instrument digital interface MIDI | a standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers |
finger spelling fingerspelling | an alphabet of manual signs |
finger-pointing fingerpointing | the imputation of blame, they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop |
finger food | food to be eaten with the fingers |
fish stick fish finger | a long fillet of fish breaded and fried |
Finger Lakes | a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction |
pulp mush | any soft or soggy mass, he pounded it to a pulp |
finger grass | any grass of the genus Chloris, occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils |
crabgrass crab grass finger grass | grasses with creeping stems that root freely, a pest in lawns |
large crabgrass hairy finger grass Digitaria sanguinalis | a European forage grass grown for hay, a naturalized weed in United States |
finger millet ragi ragee African millet coracan corakan kurakkan Eleusine coracana | East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient |
okra gumbo okra plant lady's-finger Abelmoschus esculentus Hibiscus esculentus | tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews, sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus |
cinquefoil five-finger | any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers, abundant in temperate regions, alleged to have medicinal properties |