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there
1. adv. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
2. adv. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
He did not stop there, but continued his speech.
They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.
3. adv. (location) To or into that place; thither.
4. adv. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
5. adv. In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
6. interj. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.
There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
7. interj. Used to express victory or completion.
There! That knot should hold.
8. n. That place.
9. n. That status; that position.
You get it ready; I'll take it from there.
10. pron. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
There are two apples on the table. =Two apples are on the table.
There is no way to do it. =No way to do it exists.
Is there an answer? =Does an answer exist?
No, there isn't. =No, one doesn't exist.
11. pron. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
If x is a positive number, then there exists =there is a positive number y less than x.
There remain several problems with this approach. =Several problems remain with this approach.
Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. =There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.
There arose a great wind out of the east. =There was now a great wind, arising in the east.
12. pron. Used with other verbs, when raised.
There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. =It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.
I expected there to be a simpler solution. =I expected that there would be a simpler solution.
There are beginning to be complications. =It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.
13. pron. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
therefor, thereat, thereunder
14. pron. (colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells
Hi there, young fellow.
15. contraction. misspelling of they’re
16. det. misspelling of their
Is
1. n. plural of I
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
3. n. plural of i
remember to dot your is
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
Apocryphal
1. adj. (Christianity) Of or relating to the Apocrypha.
2. adj. (Christianity) Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.
3. adj. (by extension) Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical.
Many scholars consider the stories of the monk Teilo to be apocryphal.
4. adj. (by extension) Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend.
There is an apocryphal tale of a little boy plugging the dike with his finger.
tale
1. n. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
2. n. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
3. n. (obsolete) Speech; language.
4. n. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
5. n. (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
6. n. (rare, or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
7. n. (rare, or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
8. n. (rare, or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
9. n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
Don't tell tales!
10. n. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
the Canterbury Tales
11. n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
12. n. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
13. v. (dialectal, or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
14. v. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
15. n. alternative form of tael
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
little
1. adj. Small in size.
This is a little table.
2. adj. Insignificant, trivial.
It's of little importance.
3. adj. (offensive) (Used to belittle a person.)
Listen up, you little shit.
4. adj. Very young.
Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
That's the biggest little boy I've ever seen.
5. adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
This is my little sister.
6. adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
7. adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
little money; little herd
8. adj. Short in duration; brief.
I feel better after my little sleep.
9. adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
10. adv. Not much.
This is a little known fact. She spoke little and listened less.
11. adv. Not at all.
I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.
12. det. Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
There is little water left.
We had very little to do.
13. pron. Not much; not a large amount.
Little is known about his early life.
14. n. (BDSM, slang) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
boy
1. n. A young male, particularly
Kate is dating a boy named Jim.
2. n. A male child or teenager, as distinguished from infants or adults.
3. n. (diminutive) A male child: a son of any age.
4. n. (affectionate, diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.
5. n. (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
6. n. (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:
7. n. A younger such worker.
8. n. (historical, or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
9. n. (obsolete) A male camp follower.
10. n. (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
11. n. A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.
C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?
Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
12. n. (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
13. n. (US, slang) Heroin.
14. interj. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
Boy, that was close!
Boy, that tastes good!
Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!
15. v. to use the word boy to refer to someone
Don't boy me!
16. v. to act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage)
plugging
1. v. present participle of plug
2. n. The act of stopping with a plug.
3. n. The material of which a plug or stopper is made.
4. n. An arrangement of plugs.
We tried a few different pluggings.
plug
1. n. (electricity) a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket
I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
2. n. any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole
Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
3. n. (US) a flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco
He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
4. n. (US, slang) a high, tapering silk hat
5. n. (US, slang) a worthless horse
That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
6. n. (construction) a block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails
7. n. a mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these
During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
8. n. (geology) a body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
9. n. (fishing) a type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
10. n. (horticulture) a small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate
11. n. a short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear
12. n. (slang) a drug dealer
13. v. to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole
He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
14. v. to blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it
The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
15. v. (intransitive, informal) to persist or continue with something
Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
16. v. to shoot a bullet into something with a gun
17. v. (slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually
I'd love to plug him.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
dike
1. n. (chiefly) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
2. v. (chiefly) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
3. v. (US) To be well dressed.
4. n. (US) A well-dressed man.
5. n. (US) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
6. n. Alternative form of dyke: a masculine woman; a lesbian.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
finger
1. n. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
2. n. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
3. n. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
4. n. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
5. n. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robin, pl=s (Triglidae).
6. n. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
7. n. (cuisine) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
8. n. (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
9. n. (UK regional, botany, usually in plural, obsolete) (altname, foxglove) (D. purpurea).
10. n. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
a finger of land; a finger of smoke
11. n. (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
12. n. (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
13. n. (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
14. n. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
15. n. (nautical) (clipping of finger pier): a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
16. n. (aviation) (altname, jet bridge): the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
17. n. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
18. n. (obsolete) (altname, hand), the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
19. n. (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
20. n. (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
21. n. (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
22. n. (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
23. n. (historical) (altname, digit): former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of frac
24. n. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½(nbsp)inches (11.43nbspcm).
25. n. (historical) (altname, digit): frac, 1, 12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
26. n. (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
27. n. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
28. n. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
29. n. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
30. n. (UK slang) A person.
31. n. A chicken finger.
32. n. (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
33. v. 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, to finger.
34. v. To poke or probe with a finger or fingers.
35. v. To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
36. v. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
37. v. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
38. v. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
39. v. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
40. v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

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