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Fingering   /fˈɪŋgərɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Fingering  n.  
1.
The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. "The mere sight and fingering of money."
2.
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.
3.
The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
4.
Delicate work made with the fingers.


verb
Finger  v. t.  (past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)  
1.
To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with. "Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me."
2.
To touch lightly; to toy with.
3.
(Mus.)
(a)
To perform on an instrument of music.
(b)
To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
4.
To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
5.
To execute, as any delicate work.


Finger  v. i.  (Mus.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.





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"Fingering" Quotes from Famous Books



... piteous haste To put on convict-clothes, While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes Each new and nerve-twitched pose, Fingering a watch whose little ticks Are ...
— Poems • Oscar Wilde
... durst with fingering bold assay To touch the softness of her tender skin, She looked as coy, as if she list not play, And made as things of worth were hard to win; Yet tempered so her deignful looks alway, That outward scorn showed store of grace within: Thus with false hope their longing hearts she fired, ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... four, Sliding up the sparkling floor; Then it ebbs to flow no more, Wandering off from shore to shore With its freight of golden ore! - Pleasant place for boys to play; - Better keep your girls away; Hearts get rolled as pebbles do Which countless fingering waves pursue, And every classic beach is strown With heart-shaped pebbles ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... the steelyards, I ain't," O'mie replied. Passing from behind the counter and courteously offering her a chair. Then jumping upon the counter beside her he sat swinging his heels against it, fingering the yard-stick beside the pile of calicoes. "Not by the steelyards, I ain't the biggest. Tell Mapleson's lots longer, and James Conlow, blacksmith, and Cam Gentry, and Cris Mead are all bigger. But if you want to ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... one window only, which now was hung with red curtains. By the fireplace, where a brisk wood fire was crackling, lean'd the young gentlewoman I had met at Hungerford, who, as she now turn'd her eyes upon me, ceas'd fingering the guitar or mandoline that she held against her waist, and raised her pretty head ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch


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