thumb
- IPA[THəm]
美式
- 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.
- 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
- 釋義
- 片語
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.
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
- ▪ 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
- ▪ 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
