fingertip

«fingertip» in Mova's school dictionary: The very end of a finger — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fingertip, fingertips)

meaning for a pupil

1) The very end of a finger. tree →

2) At your fingertips: easy to reach or find, ready for you to use (information at your fingertips). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, fingertips have many nerve endings, so they are very sensitive to touch; blind people read Braille with their fingertips; fingerprints are on the fingertips. In everyday life you feel textures and test warmth with fingertips. In safety: keep fingertips away from car doors, scissors and blender blades. Phrases: at your fingertips, to your fingertips (completely), fingertip touch.

examples

• Braille is read with the fingertips. tree →
• My fingertips went numb in the snow. tree →
• Touch the fabric gently with your fingertips. tree →
• Every fingertip has its own pattern of lines called a fingerprint. tree →
• With a tablet, a whole library is at your fingertips. tree →
• Keep your fingertips away from the door hinge. tree →
• She was an artist to her fingertips. tree →

note

One word: fingertip. «At your fingertips» does not mean literally on your fingers — it means close and easy to use.

In the corpora

• Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.
• Skin even fights back against rubbing: a blister cushions a sore spot, and a guitarist's fingertips grow thick hard calluses.
• In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fingertips, which is made up too.
• Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fingertip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.