Thumb

● n.拇指; （手套的）拇指部份

● vi.翹起拇指請求搭乘（過路汽車），示意請求搭便車; 翻閱

● vt.翻閱; 作搭車手勢; 用拇指翻臟[翻壞]（書頁等）

● 複數: thumbs

● 第三人稱單數: thumbs

● 過去式: thumbed

● 過去分詞: thumbed

● 現在分詞: thumbing

a baby sucking its thumb

吮著大拇指的嬰兒

She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.

她小心翼翼地把那枚硬幣捏在食指和拇指之間。

Would you do up these buttons for me? I seem to be all thumbs today.

幫我扣上這些紐扣好嗎？今天我感覺自己笨手笨腳的。

He was still under his father's thumb.

他仍受制於他的父親。

Noun

● 1. the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

● 2. the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

● 3. a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

Verb

● 1. travel by getting free rides from motorists

● 2. look through a book or other written material;

● "He thumbed through the report"

● "She leafed through the volume"

● 3. feel or handle with the fingers;

● "finger the binding of the book"