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Fingering   /fˈɪŋgərɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Fingering  n.  
1.
The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. "The mere sight and fingering of money."
2.
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.
3.
The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
4.
Delicate work made with the fingers.


verb
Finger  v. t.  (past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)  
1.
To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with. "Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me."
2.
To touch lightly; to toy with.
3.
(Mus.)
(a)
To perform on an instrument of music.
(b)
To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
4.
To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
5.
To execute, as any delicate work.


Finger  v. i.  (Mus.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.





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"Fingering" Quotes from Famous Books



... you relieved me of the necessity of making some such suggestion. I think that is all—for the present." She stood up, and, fingering her glove, glanced down at the table for a moment. "May I pay, say, two hundred dollars now, ...
— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele
... doesn't try to fire on us," muttered Bob, who was nervously fingering his rifle, and wondering how dreadful it would feel to be compelled, even in self-defense, to shoot at ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... yacht was going away from me fast—faster; good swimmer though I was, it was impossible for me to catch up to her—she was making her own length to every stroke I took, and as she drew away he stood there, one hand on the tiller, the other in his pocket (I have often wondered if it was fingering a revolver in there!), his eyes turned steadily on me. And I began first to beg and entreat him to save me, and then to shout out and curse him—and at that, and seeing that we were becoming further and further separated, he deliberately put the yacht still ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... in here, to be away from the music?" said the back-drawing-room. But Laetitia wanted to see Mr. Bradshaw's fingering of that passage. We are more ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... frequent. As a specimen of authority, even a little motor earthquake is too much. They happen along in that neighbourhood every now and then, maybe once a month, and you grow used to them, but still, they're vivid. If you got it once in your mind that Himself in the lighthouse was fingering the bowels of the earth, and Himself was doing it when the jerks came under you, and your house walls creaked and swayed, you'd give something to keep Himself amiable. There was no doubt ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton


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