Thumb

Noun

 * 1) The short thick 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.
 * 3)  (Abbreviation of) thumbnail (picture).

Synonyms

 * pollex, digit I, first digit ; thumby

Hypernyms

 * digit, finger

Hyponyms

 * opposable thumb

Derived terms

 * all fingers and thumbs
 * all thumbs
 * brown thumb
 * green thumb
 * opposable thumb
 * rule of thumb
 * stick out like a sore thumb


 * thumb a lift
 * thumb a ride
 * thumbboard
 * thumbnail
 * thumbprint
 * thumb-sketch or thumb sketch
 * thumb wrestle
 * thumbs up
 * under one's thumb
 * under the thumb

Verb

 * 1)  To touch with the thumb.
 * 2)  To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
 * I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
 * 1)  To hitchhike
 * So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.

Synonyms

 * browse, leaf, page, peruse

Derived terms

 * thumb one's nose
 * thumb a lift
 * thumb a ride


 * well-thumbed

Adjectives for Thumb
black; shuffling; peaked; vigorous; wadded; solitary; broken; waving; fatty.

Verbs for Thumb
bind—; brush with—; crush—; deform—; dislocate—; extend—; flex—; knead with —s; lacerate—; manipulate—; sever—; sprain—; twiddle—s; —gropes; —throbs.

Thesaurus
OK, accept, all thumbs, annulary, approve of, awkward, be contemptuous of, catch a ride, clumsy, come in contact, contemn, dactylion, deride, digit, disapprove of, dismiss, feel, feel of, finger, flick, flip through, flout, forefinger, ham-fisted, handle, hitch, hitch a ride, hitch rides, hitchhike, index, index finger, jeer at, little finger, maladroit, manipulate, medius, middle finger, minimus, mock, okay, palm, palpate, paw, pinkie, ply, poke at, pollex, prod, rebuff, reject, ring finger, scoff at, scorn, tap, thumb through, touch, turn down, twiddle, welcome, wield

Etymology
Middle English thoume:, thoumbe:, from þuma:, from  (cf. West Frisian tomme:, Dutch duim:, German Daumen:), from  (cf. Welsh tyfu:, Latin tumere:, Lithuanian tumėti:, Ancient Greek undefined: 'burial mound', Avestan undefined: 'strong', Sanskrit undefined: 'strong, thick').

Noun

 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: إبهام
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:, dedón, , matapioyos
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, bizied-meud; , meudoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, tommeltot
 * Dhivehi: ބޮޑުވައި އިގިލި
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: pöial
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ცერი (c'er'i)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: polexo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Korean: ,


 * Kyrgyz: баш бармак
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: īkšķis
 * Luxembourgish: Daum
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: आंग्ठा
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Pangasinan:
 * Persian: ابهام
 * Pitjantjatjara:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: puseri
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kidole gumba
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బొటనవేలు
 * Thai: หัวแม่มือ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: başam barmak
 * Ukrainian: полекс
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian:
 * Turkmen: başam barmak
 * Ukrainian: полекс
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian:
 * West Frisian:


 * Greek: εγκοπή ευρετηρίασης


 * Norwegian: tommeskrue