Difference between Finger and Thumb

What is the difference between Finger and Thumb?

Finger as a noun is one of the long extremities of the hand. while Thumb as a noun is 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.

Finger

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of the long extremities of the hand. A piece of food resembling such an extremity. (also finger pier) A walkway extending from a dock, an airport terminal, etc, used by passengers to board a waiting ship or aeroplane.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To identify or point out. Ex.: put the finger on To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, to finger. To poke, probe, or fondle with a finger. To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument. To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.

Example sentence: The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Thumb

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.(Abbreviation of) thumbnail (picture).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To touch with the thumb.To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.

Example sentence: For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

We hope you now know whether to use Finger or Thumb in your sentence.

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