Fingering
['fɪŋg(ə)rɪŋ] or ['fɪŋɡərɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) touching something with the fingers.
(noun.) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument.
Typist: Nola--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finger
(n.) The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
(n.) Delicate work made with the fingers.
Inputed by Jon
Examples
- I know very well that you give me plenty of money, said George (fingering a bundle of notes which he had got in the morning from Mr. Chopper). William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Twas a wonderful thing that one body could hold it all and never mix the fingering. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She lapsed into her inarticulate sounds, and unconsciously drew forth the article which she was fingering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The poet was evidently inspired by Byron, remarked Crispin, idly fingering the piano keys; I expect he wrote it after the 'Isles of Greece,' song. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But I'd no business to be fingering bills. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He could not immediately find any other mode of expressing himself than that of rising, fixing his eye-glass, and fingering the papers before him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not by a damned sight, replied Snipes, fingering the butt of his revolver nervously. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typist: Rachel