"fingertip" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-fingertip.ogg [US] Forms: fingertips [plural]
Etymology: From finger + tip. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|finger|tip}} finger + tip Head templates: {{en-noun}} fingertip (plural fingertips)
  1. The tip of the human finger. Categories (topical): Anatomy Derived forms: at one's fingertips, fingertip search Translations (the end of the finger): ἄκρον δακτύλου (ákron daktúlou) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), بَنَان (banān) [masculine] (Arabic), أُنْمُلَة (ʔunmula) [feminine] (Arabic), մատի ծայր (mati cayr) (Armenian), punta dels dits (Catalan), 指尖 (zhǐjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), fingerspids [common-gender] (Danish), vingertop [masculine] (Dutch), fingropinto (Esperanto), sormenpää (Finnish), bout des doigts [masculine] (French), bout de doigt [masculine] (French), Fingerspitze [feminine] (German), ujjhegy (Hungarian), punta del dito [feminine] (Italian), 指先 (yubisaki) (alt: ゆびさき) (Japanese), nagai [masculine, plural] (Lithuanian), fōreweard finger (Old English), ȳtmest finger (Old English), opuszka [feminine] (Polish), koniec palca [masculine] (Polish), ponta do dedo [feminine] (Portuguese), ко́нчик па́льца (kónčik pálʹca) [masculine] (Russian), vrh prsta (Serbo-Croatian), jagodica prsta (Serbo-Croatian), yema del dedo [feminine] (Spanish), fingerspets [common-gender] (Swedish), ปลายนิ้ว (Thai), parmak ucu (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-fingertip-en-noun-nxfKtvp4 Disambiguation of Anatomy: 60 40

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-fingertip.ogg [US] Forms: fingertips [present, singular, third-person], fingertipping [participle, present], fingertipped [participle, past], fingertipped [past]
Etymology: From finger + tip. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|finger|tip}} finger + tip Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} fingertip (third-person singular simple present fingertips, present participle fingertipping, simple past and past participle fingertipped)
  1. (transitive) to move or deflect with the fingertips Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-fingertip-en-verb-p6OPYHCW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 67

Inflected forms

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        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "fingertip (third-person singular simple present fingertips, present participle fingertipping, simple past and past participle fingertipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record",
          "text": "Then Rogne released Forrest with a diagonal ball and the winger tormented Broadfoot again before blasting a shot which McGregor managed to fingertip over his bar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to move or deflect with the fingertips"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "deflect",
          "deflect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to move or deflect with the fingertips"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-fingertip.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-us-fingertip.ogg/En-us-fingertip.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-us-fingertip.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fingertip"
}

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