English Dictionary

finger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪŋɡə/

動詞

他動詞 廃用

(transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.

日本語の意味

指摘する（～を指し示して示す） / 特定する（特に問題のある人物を認識して明かす） / 告発する（当局等に通報する）

She decided to finger the suspect to the police after finding the stolen watch in his locker.

彼女は彼のロッカーで盗まれた腕時計を見つけた後、その容疑者を警察に密告することにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.

I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.

意味（2）

(transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.

Let the papers lie; / You would be fingering them to anger me.

意味（3）

(transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.

She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.

意味（4）

(transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.

意味（5）

(transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.

意味（6）

(transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.

PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

意味（7）

(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.

in the dark / Groped I to find out them, had my desire, / Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew / To mine own room again,

意味（8）

(transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

fingers （ present singular third-person ）

fingering （ participle present ）

fingered （ participle past ）

fingered （ past ）