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thumb
English
Alternative forms
- thum, thume, thumbe (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þ?ma, from Proto-Germanic *þ?mô (compare West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Dumen, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme), from Proto-Indo-European *t?m- (“to grow”) (compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tum?re (“to swell”), Lithuanian tum?ti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan ????????????????? (am?t, “strong”), Sanskrit ????? (túmra, “strong, thick”)). The parasitic ?b has existed since the late 13th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
thumb (plural thumbs)
- 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.
- (graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
- (colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
- 2001, "Gary", Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE (on newsgroup alt.sex.services)
Synonyms
- (digit): pollex, digit I, first digit (anatomy) ; thumby (colloquial)
Hypernyms
- (digit): digit, finger
Hyponyms
- (digit): opposable thumb
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
thumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)
- (transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
- (transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
- (travel) To hitchhike
- 1969, Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Me and Bobby McGee":
- Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.
- 1980, Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, "Smoky Mountain Rain":
- Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.
- 1969, Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Me and Bobby McGee":
- To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
- To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
- To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
- 2011, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, pg 14
- To thumb a single-action revolver, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer.
- 2011, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, pg 14
Synonyms
- (to turn pages): browse, leaf, page, peruse
Derived terms
Related terms
- (firing a single action revolver via hammer flicks while trigger is held down) fanning (using opposite hand instead of thumb)
Translations
References
Albanian
Alternative forms
- thumbi, thump
Etymology
From *thon (“(finger)nail”) (modern thua). More at thua.
Noun
thumb m (indefinite plural thumba)
- stinger (of a bee)
- thorn, prick
- bell clapper, tongue (of bell)
- tack, thumbtack, shoe tack (spike)
- point of arrowhead, spiked tip of a goad or prod
Derived terms
- thumbull
Middle English
Alternative forms
- þumb
Noun
thumb (plural thumbes)
- Alternative form of þombe (“thumb”)
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vendor
English
Alternative forms
- vender
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?n.d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?n.d?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
- Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun
vendor (plural vendors)
- A person or a company that vends or sells.
- A vending machine.
- 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)
- She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
- 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)
Synonyms
- merchant
- seller
Related terms
- vend
- vending machine
- vendor bid
- vendue
Translations
Verb
vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)
- (transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
- I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
- (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
- Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
Anagrams
- Verdon, droven
Latin
Verb
v?ndor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of v?nd?
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