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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   thumb

   • IPA[THəm]

   美式

   • n.
     the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.；the corresponding digit of primates or other mammals.
   • v.
     press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb；turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb

   • verb: thumb, 3rd person present: thumbs, gerund or present participle: thumbing, past tense: thumbed, past participle: thumbed

   • noun: thumb, plural noun: thumbs

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.
   • ▪ the corresponding digit of primates or other mammals.
   • ▪ the part of a glove intended to cover the thumb.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid open 同義詞 press, push (down), depress, lean on
   • ▪ turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb I've thumbed my address book and found quite a range of smaller hotels he was thumbing through that magazine for the umpteenth time 同義詞 leaf, flick, flip, skim, browse, ... 更多glance, look, riffle, read, scan, dip into, run one's eye over, have a look at, peruse
   • ▪ wear or soil (a book's pages) by repeated handling his dictionaries were thumbed and ink-stained
   • ▪ request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signaling with one's thumb three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a ride he was thumbing his way across France 同義詞 hitchhike, ask for, request, signal for, get, ... 更多obtain, informalhitch, hitch a lift

   片語

   • be all thumbs
   • thumb one's nose at
   • thumbs down
   • thumbs up
   • under someone's thumb