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The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
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The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
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A thumbnail picture.
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To touch or cover with the thumb.
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to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
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(with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
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I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
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(travel) To hitchhike
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So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
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To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
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To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
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To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
Swipe your thumb over it once, and it stuns.
She put a thumb up.
She pulled her micro free and rested her wet thumb against it until the screen unlocked; it worked.
She gasped and pulled away, but not before his thumb grazed her calloused palm.
His eyes twinkled and he jabbed a thumb at the dining room.
His thumb brushed her jaw line.
He stopped at one and pressed his thumb to the keypad.
She spotted the maroon drops on the pad of one thumb and drew his hand up to her lips.
Place your thumb on the pad, and it'll signal me.
Agitated, she bit her thumb.
He had a crowd control baton the size of her hand that expanded with a touch to the thumb pad.
If you hit your thumb with a hammer when great aunt Edith is in the room what do you say?
A good rule of thumb is to invite as many children as the age of the birthday child.
A trackball is often attached to the side of the mouse where your thumb rests.
A good rule of thumb to follow, share only what you're comfortable with.
Wrap your forefinger and thumb around your opposite wrist.
A rule of thumb is that the whole system is likely to cost about £ 1000 per installed kilowatt.
The Thumb Tip is commonly used by amateur magicians.
She was given a thumb spica plaster after closed reduction of the dislocation.
A quick spool release thumb bar and variable braking system comes as standard, as do star drag and aluminum spool.
I wasn't so much cutting as scratching I started with a thumb tack and moved to safety pins.
The string is wound once around the billet and held taut by the thumb inserted in the looped end.
Brian Welham suffered the dislocated thumb, but pluckily kept going, even tho he finished near the back of the fleet.
You owe the Oracle a can opener that doesn't require an opposable thumb.
They would stand out like a sore thumb at a fancy dress party!
The purpose of his paper was to show that if the axis, by which the observer imparts motion to the slide on which the travelling web is mounted, is provided with two disks at its extremities, so that the observer can use the thumb and finger of both hands in rotating it, there is no difficulty, after a little practice, in keeping the web constantly bisecting the star in transit, and that with a little practice the mean of the absolute errors in following the star becomes nearly zero.
The two joints of the thumb, for example, are homogenous throughout the whole series of the pentadactylate, or five-fingered animals, from the most primitive amphibian to man.
Press the thumb on the pieces, arranged on a plate with sesame seeds, to give them the shape of rose petals.
An average of three hundred words is a good rule of thumb.
A rule of thumb might be spirit magic has a target number of 5 per point while rune magic requires 8 per point.
Draw up tight, sew side seam down to thumb.
They would stand out like a sore thumb at a fancy dress party !
Manual sphygmomanometer with an easy to read liquid crystal display Very robust User adjustable deflation using thumb wheel.
I was n't so much cutting as scratching I started with a thumb tack and moved to safety pins.
It has the usual adjustable thumb rest and the metal tenon rings are part silver and part gold.
In advanced cases, the thenar muscle at the base of the thumb atrophies, and strength is lost.
You owe the Oracle a can opener that does n't require an opposable thumb.
No hefty pump arms, slim, sleek and stripped with just two thumb screws.
With 275 mostly color photographs to thumb through, it 's a lovely looking insight into the models design origins and development history.
While you will be judged-the marketplace will give you a thumb's up or thumb's down-it shouldn't stop you from releasing your product on a timely basis.
A basic rule of thumb is that women who are at a normal weight with a healthy body mass index need to shoot for between twenty-five to thirty-five pounds.
A good rule of thumb is that if you can pass a soda can between the slats, they're too far apart.
In both cases, a few rules of thumb apply; most cards are cute or sentimental and include pictures or words of wisdom that lend themselves to the baby theme.
If your thumb can press in the sole of a boot, then the boot is not going to stand up very long to the various terrains you'll be taking it over.
Have you always dreamed of having an immaculate and well-sculpted garden, but lack something in the green thumb department?
By spinning the ball with your thumb, you can move the pointer on your computer desktop just as you normally would by moving the mouse itself.
With each pair of shoes you try on, press your thumb into the space between your big toe and the tip of the shoe.
If your thumb fits comfortably in that space, then the shoes are a good fit.
Make sure you can fit your thumb between the tip of the shoe and your longest toe when trying the shoe on.
The brick-and-mortar stores have online counterparts, but a good rule of thumb is that if the actual store is out of stock, then there is a 99 percent chance the online version is also out of stock.
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