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Definition of duim in Dutch English dictionary
- thumb
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
-De hand heeft vijf vingers: duim, wijsvinger, middelvinger, ringvinger en pink.
- 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
- thumbnail (picture)
- To hitchhike
So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
- To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
- To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum
- {f} browse, turn pages
- If you thumb a lift or thumb a ride, you stand by the side of the road holding out your thumb until a driver stops and gives you a lift. It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image. = hitch see also well-thumbed
- Your thumb is the short thick part on the side of your hand next to your four fingers. She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me
- To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune
- green thumb: see green to thumb your nose at someone: see nose rule of thumb: see rule
- The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex
- If you say that someone is twiddling their thumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen. The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- To handle awkwardly
- the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb
- feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"
- the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb
- a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse
- If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them. I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb
- emphasis If you say that someone or something sticks out like a sore thumb or stands out like a sore thumb, you are emphasizing that they are very noticeable, usually because they are unusual or inappropriate. Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?