单词 | fingered |
释义 | fingeredadj.1 1. Chiefly with modifying word or as the second element in compounds: having (a specified type or number of) fingers. a. Of a person or animal.green-, light-, long-, quick-, rosy-, three-fingered, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [adjective] fingerlyOE fingereda1529 digital1656 digitary1767 fingerish1888 minimal1893 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 41 How she is gumbed, Fyngered and thumbed, Gently ioynted. 1643 R. Hodges Special Help Orthogr. 9 A toad. Fingred and toed. He towed his Barge. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 131/2 Their Feete are either Fingered, and Armed with Nails..and Clawes: or Hoofed. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. vi. 7 He..is as nimble-fingered as a Juggler. 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 124 Monkey... Four-fingered... Le Coaita de Buffon... .Spider Monkey. 1842 Bentley's Misc. Feb. 162 The children seemed born neat-fingered. 1856 W. B. Adams in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Nov. 8/1 The thin-fingered class, adapted to artistical employments. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 8 The great looking-glass..reflects Mrs. Veneering; fair, aquiline-nosed and fingered. 1907 Billboard 13 July 13/4 The windy, brain fuzzled, yellow fingered, slangy advance agent, who bulls his way into the editor's room. 1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back i. 12 His large thick-fingered hands were as clever as a jeweller's. 2012 D. Quammen Spillover xxxviii. 199 Guangjian was an expert handler of bats, sure-fingered and steady with the delicate little animals. b. Of a glove or other covering for the hand (or occasionally the foot).Earliest in cut-fingered adj. at cut adj. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [adjective] > types of gloves cut-fingered1591 prick-seamed1624 right-handed1700 fingered1739 gauntleted1810 tilbury'd1901 ambidextrous1919 1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. 'Tis as good to go in cut-fingered pumps as cork shoes, if one wear Cornish diamonds on his toes. 1739 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 35 Six pair of cut fingered gloves. 1835 Penny Mag. 7 Nov. 439/1 They often had fingers, in which they differ from those of Turkey, where I do not think I ever saw fingered gloves. a1843 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 584/2 The stalks of the leaves furnished stockings, and ladies fingered gloves. 1847 Archaeol. Jrnl. 4 231 May not the ‘maynfere’ provided for the juster [sic] have been a fingered gauntlet, or main de fer, for the bridle arm? 1957 S. J. Kennedy in F. R. Fisher Protection & Functioning of Hands in Cold Climates 163 There is..the open-fingered glove, or wristlet, which appears to offer some promise. 1977 L. R. Banks Path to Silent Country (1988) i. iii. 47 She wore little half-fingered black lace gloves and carried an old-fashioned reticule. 2008 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 5 Aug. 9 The five-fingered sock is a coveted item among men, and among male and female athletes. 2015 C. Dennis 20 Classic Sportive Rides South East Eng. 22/2 Wear short-fingered gloves when warm and full-fingered ones when cool. 2. Divided into or bearing finger-like lobes or sections; digitate. a. Botany. Of a plant or its leaf, flower, fruit, root, etc. (Cf. digitate adj. 2a, palmate adj. 2, 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts jagged1548 crowned1578 fingered1597 handed1597 hooded1597 unbranched1665 starred1693 bell-like1754 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 columniferous1785 gladiate1793 bottlebrush1798 antlereda1806 muscariform1839 sagittiferous1858 crested1861 unseptated1899 unseptate1900 palmiform1962 the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape fingered1597 fistular1640 umbilicated1693 pectinal1705 fornicated1750 deltoid1753 linguiform1753 panduriform1753 lingulated1754 campaniform1758 augmented1760 ringed1760 securiform1760 urceolate1760 utricular1760 lingulate1763 vermicular1766 pandurated1771 navicular1793 semicolumnar1793 ungulate1802 capitellate1808 meniscoid1821 virgate1821 mitriform1824 pulvinate1824 caudated1829 vulviform1829 caudate1830 circinate1830 intruded1830 trochlear1830 scalariform1836 hippocrepiform1847 neottious1850 pulviniform1851 foxglove-shaped1856 clathroid1857 molariform1857 velate1857 strombuliform1859 calceiform1860 coralline1860 forniciform1860 urceolar1860 calceolate1861 frustulose1866 pandurate1866 intruse1870 scalar1880 meniscoidal1881 fingerposted1885 applanate1887 trochleariform1895 naviculoid1898 halonate1911 the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape creviced1558 bladed1578 curled1578 purled1578 rank-toothed1578 fingered1597 cultellated1657 pounced1681 reduced1682 cuspidate1693 frontated1719 cuspidated1731–7 subrotund1753 acerose1760 hastate1760 involute1760 oblique1760 acerousc1789 strap-spear-shaped1796 immarginate1800 submarginate1807 replicate1812 toothleted1812 angustate1826 palaceous1832 bicrenate1835 basisolute1847 replicative1852 frontate1855 hastile1857 1597 J. Gerard Herball Index sig. Eeeee3v Fingerd Orchis. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 98 A fingered leaf, being from one foot-stalk divided into many segments. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Cannabis It hath digitated (or finger'd) Leaves, which grow opposite to one another. 1814 Monthly Rev. Sept. 80 Its radicatio is also totally different, being a very narrowly fingered tuber. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 40 Fingered Sedge. 1883 Evang. Mag. Nov. 511 The carpels fail to unite, and we get what are called ‘fingered citrons’. 1979 Homes & Gardens Oct. 103 The finely divided leaves of dicentras, aquilegias and thalictrums offset..the larger lobed or fingered hellebores. 2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 8/2 Anthuriums come in a wide range of leaf shapes, from simple heart shape to narrow and very long,..or deeply divided or fingered as in A. clavigerum. 2006 Guardian 28 Mar. (G2 section) 7/1 The species with the most tenuous foothold of all is the fingered speedwell, a tiny blue flower confined to the lawns and flowerbeds of a new housing estate in the Norfolk town of Thetford. b. In other contexts. ΚΠ 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 590 Spongia Americana capitata et digitata; The fingered sponge of Plumier. 1866 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 18 Each deep valley between these fingered ridges and to the south has its streams, and no less than fifty separate rivers find their way to the coast. 1996 M. J. Kooistra & M. van Noordwijk in M. R. Carter & B. A. Stewart Struct. & Org. Matter Storage in Agric. Soils 41 In zones without large void systems, the water and solutes often infiltrate in fingered patterns. 1997 R. Hume Shell Easy Bird Guide 84 (caption) Deeply fingered wing tips, longer glides and slower wing beats give eagle more majestic appearance than buzzard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fingeredadj.2 1. That is or has been fingered (in various senses of finger v.); esp. touched, manipulated, or played using the fingers.In quot. 1602: performed using the fingers. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective] > pilfered surrepted1602 purloined1607 fingered1775 1602 J. Rider Friendly Caveat to Irelands Catholickes sig. N Making the people beleeue that you can make one cup..more holie then an other, by your fingred blessing. ?1635 Prettie Compar. Wittily Grounded (single sheet) Best Musick's in the finger'd Lute. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Fingered..touched, stolen. 1777 Aberdeen Jrnl. 29 Sept. Stolen,..a Piece of Fingered Wheeling Sey, not half milled, some foul Wool in it. 1796 ‘Juvenis’ Village Muse 86 Neat-stepping music to the finger'd strings. 1811 Calcutta i. 33 The skin-flint, who..Ne'er yields the fingered cash without a sigh. 1890 E. L. Arnold Wonderful Adventures Phra the Phœnician xxiv. 323 There was not a page in all that fingered, scholar-marked library..upon which I could not find something better. 1917 Cartoons Mag. July 68/2 Those arched eyebrows, that fingered mustache, that utterly vacuous expression. 2015 M. Wilson Cello Pract., Cello Performance ii. 9 Pick up your bow. Play any fingered note..using vibrato. 2. Music. Of written music: marked with numbers or signs indicating the fingers with which the notes are to be played. Cf. finger v. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > fingering fingering1712 fingered1813 1813 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 260/2 The fingered exercises are the most valuable part of the work. 1875 Musical World 15 May 320/1 The contents are enriched by fingered passages, alla Tartini. 1908 Musical Herald 1 Dec. 380/2 I shall feel grateful if you can recommend something to help me—fingered exercises with explanation. 1953 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 6 252/1 Especially valuable are the examples of fingered pieces by Hans Buchner von Constanz. 2012 R. De Prisco et al. in L. Rukowski et al. Swarm & Evolutionary Computation i. 48 Fingered music can be of great help to music students. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1a1529adj.21602 |
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