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It is a noun that refers to the finger on the hand that is nearest to the thumb. For example: I used my forefinger to push the button.
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forefinger
noun
The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.
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"This is our Advanced Vaping System," he explains, holding the black stick between thumb and forefinger.
The militants, it was rumoured, meant to cut off the inky forefinger of anyone thus marked as having disobeyed their injunction.
The owner of a roadside stall flaunted his forefinger, stained with election ink, and shouted about every vote counting.Yet the talk did not translate into action.
If we are at a restaurant, he picks up the glass by its lip between thumb and forefinger, holds it up to the light, and frowns".This is not strong tea.
Ronald Reagan was ignoring the budget deficit, the Marines were booting Communists out of Grenada and the Chicken McNugget was first clasped between the thumb and forefinger of a delighted nation.
Steve Jobs is a white wizard in wire rims who offers unto us, in exchange for the fruits of mere days or weeks of labour, mesmerising portals to a better, beautiful, more enchanted world where we can have our whim with the flick of a forefinger.
When a gladiator was wounded, the spectators shouted "Habet" ("He is wounded"); if he was at the mercy of his adversary, he lifted up his forefinger to implore the clemency of the people, to whom (in the later times of the Republic) the giver left the decision as to his life or death.
The infant can reach for and grasp an object by about the 4th month and can grasp a small object between his thumb and forefinger by the 10th month.
Parkinson disease often begins with a slight tremor of the thumb and forefinger, sometimes called "pill-rolling," and slowly progresses over 10 to 20 years, resulting in paralysis, dementia, and death.
That contributes to the movement of opposition that is crucial for the so-called precision grip i.e., the bringing together of the tips of the thumb and forefinger.
Parkinson disease often begins with a slight tremor of the thumb and forefinger, sometimes called "pill-rolling," and slowly progresses over a period of 10 to 20 years.
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