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n. 拇指 vt. 以拇指拨弄, 笨拙地摆弄, 用拇指翻旧, 迅速翻阅, 作搭车手势

发音

US /ˈθʌm/
IN /ˈt̪am(b)/

词形变化

thumbs 复数 thumbs thumbed thumbing thumbs 三单 thumbing 现在分词 thumbed 过去式 thumbed 过去分词

别名

thum thume thumbe

教材释义与例句

名词

拇指

动词

翻阅；以拇指拨弄；作搭车手势；笨拙地摆弄

动词

用拇指翻书页；竖起拇指要求搭车

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    The shortest and thickest 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.

    大拇指

    拇指

    大指

    大拇哥

    手指公

    手指头

    大头拇

    指头拇公

    大拇翁

    大捗拇

    大捗翁

    指头拇

    大富翁

    大拇头

    指头公

    大拇公

  2. 2.

    The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.

    计算机 工程 数学

    a scroll-bar thumb

  3. 3.

    A thumbnail picture.

    非正式
  4. 4.

    A top hatch plate for covering an excavator bucket, used to keep material in the digger bucket after scooping it up, and not letting it spill out.

v.
  1. 1.

    To touch or cover with the thumb.

    及物

    to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon

  2. 2.

    To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.

    翻阅

    及物

    thumb through

    I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.

  3. 3.

    To gesture with the thumb, for example when flagging a ride.

  4. 4.

    To hitchhike.

    交通

    So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.

  5. 5.

    To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.

  6. 6.

    To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.

  7. 7.

    To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

ovolo pollex quarter-round

上位词 4

finger covering molding moulding

下位词 1

echinus

部分词 1

thumbnail

整体词 1

glove
动词

同义词 8

finger flip leaf flick hitch riff hitchhike riffle

上位词 3

touch ride peruse

相关短语

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词源

Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish and Norwegian tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”). Also compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century. Doublet of tomb.

来源：wiktionary