Sentence examples for thumb means from inspiring English sources
The "red card" signal (two fingers held up, followed by the classic heave of the thumb) means she's finished for the session she's been so offensive, repeatedly and after fair warning, that she needs to be "ejected from the game". Faculty members have learned that when they get the red card signal, they have to button it no more today.
'One Horizontal Yellow Thumb' means it's 100percentt recyclable in New Zealand, but not made from recycled materials, and 'Two Red Thumbs Down' means it's not recyclable in New Zealand.
A loose thumb means a failed move.
To thumb means to either rub or strum the metal blade near the handle with the thumb of the hand which is holding it.
Table 1 Mean error and standard derivation in five fingertips Little finger Ring finger Middle finger Fore finger Thumb Mean error (pixels) 5.31 7.42 9.711.2323 8.65 Standard deviation 3.12 5.41 3.12 7.53.1222.
People can accept that mistakes, delays and poor motives exist in specific cases, while finding it illuminating and useful to have a general rule of thumb (published means scrutinized; unpublished, ask why).
By SEI's rule of thumb that means tens of thousands of errors even after testing, which by definition won't be discovered until an accident happens, or worse.
In a tight situation, if a thumb smudge means the difference between calling a mate, or accidentally calling Mum, then I may prefer to carry round a mobile the size of a small car.
As a rule of thumb, that means a given electron machine performs as well as a proton machine that is ten times as powerful.But when electrons travel along a curve, they radiate energy (this is also true of protons, but because they are more massive, quantum theory dictates that the energy loss is less).
Eoin Donnelly's absence with a thumb injury means Ryan Jones will take over as captain.
A procedure was, therefore, designed to merge together dual cross-sections and fix the thumb by means of a small gap, as depicted in Fig. 6.
