finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
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 |
crystal detector | a detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal, acts as a rectifier |
detector sensor sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
detector | electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity |
detector demodulator | rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave |
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 |
lie detector | a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying |
metal detector | detector that gives a signal when it detects the presence of metal, used to detect the presence of stray bits of metal in food products or to find buried metal |
mine detector | detector consisting of an electromagnetic device, used to locate explosive mines |
particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
trace detector | a screening device for traces of explosives, used at airline terminals |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
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 |
manual alphabet finger alphabet | an alphabet used by the deaf, letters are represented by finger positions |
finger scan finger scanning | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically |
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 |
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 |
common foxglove fairy bell fingerflower finger-flower fingerroot fingeroot Digitalis purpurea | tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers, leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock |
finger fingerbreadth finger's breadth digit | the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure |
fingerspell finger-spell | communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language, The Deaf often fingerspell |
finger | indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments |
feel finger | examine by touch, Feel this soft cloth!, The customer fingered the sweater |
finger thumb | feel or handle with the fingers, finger the binding of the book |
finger | search for on the computer, I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons |
finger-paint | apply colors with one's fingers |