finger

A human hand, showing its four fingers and thumb.

Meanings

A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, exclusive of the thumb.
Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
Something similarly extending, from a larger body, particularly:
Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, a pickpocket.
A person.
An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.

To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
To steal; to purloin.
To execute, as any delicate work.

From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger ("finger"), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz ("finger"), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós, *penkʷ-ros, from *pénkʷe
Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish finger); also Old Irish cóicer ("set of five people"), Old Armenian հինգերորդ ("fifth")). More at five.

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