thumb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shortest and thickest 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.
  2. The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
    — a scroll-bar thumb
  3. A thumbnail picture. Internet,colloquial
  4. A top hatch plate for covering an excavator bucket, used to keep material in the digger bucket after scooping it up, and not letting it spill out.
动词 v.
  1. To touch or cover with the thumb. transitive
    — to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
  2. To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily. transitive
    — thumb through
  3. To gesture with the thumb, for example when flagging a ride.
    — Oh, look! There’s a car coming! Thumb-no, wave. They probably don’t understand thumbing.
  4. To hitchhike.
    — So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
  5. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
    — He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs.
  6. To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
    — Fargo palmed out his own revolver, thumbing back the hammer as the barrel came up.
  7. To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
    — To thumb a single-action revolver, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer.

词形变化

thumbs plural thum alternative,obsolete thume alternative,obsolete thumbe alternative,obsolete thumbs present,singular,third-person thumbing participle,present thumbed participle,past thumbed past thum alternative,obsolete thume alternative,obsolete thumbe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
pollex digit I first digit thumby
上位词
digit finger
下位词
opposable thumb
衍生词
all fingers and thumbs all thumbs ball of the thumb bethumb bite one's thumb black thumb brown thumb butcher's thumb Chinese thumb cuff climb up one's thumb e-thumb fash one's thumb finger and thumb gamekeeper's thumb get the thumb green thumb hop-o'-my-thumb lady's thumb miller's thumb Mother Thumb and her four daughters Nintendo thumb opposable thumb pseudothumb rule of thumb skier's thumb sore thumb stand out like a sore thumb stick out like a sore thumb suck out of one's thumb tearthumb thimble thumbable thumb a lift thumb a ride thumb-a-war thumb blue thumbboard thumb drive thumber thumb fight thumbhole thumb index thumb-indexed thumbkin thumb knot thumbless thumblike thumbling thumbmark thumbmarked Thumb Master thumbnail thumbnut thumb on the scale thumb on the scales thumb-over thumbpad thumb piano thumbpick thumbpiece thumb position thumbpot thumbprint thumbprinted thumb-ring thumb ring thumbsbreadth thumbscrew thumbshot thumb-sized thumb sketch thumb-sketch thumb splitter thumbstall thumbstick thumb stone thumbstroke thumbsucker thumbsucking thumbs up thumbtack thumb tip thumb-toe thumb war thumbwheel thumb wrestle Tom Thumb Tom Thumb golf tweak of the thumb under one's thumb under the thumb

词源

词源 1
Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Russian дюйм (djujm, “inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”). Also compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century. Doublet of tomb.
词源 2
Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Russian дюйм (djujm, “inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”). Also compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century. Doublet of tomb.
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