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fingertip

/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/

fingertip noun: the tip of the human finger.

Noun

fingertip (plural fingertips)

  1. The tip of the human finger.
    • The traditional Thai greeting, the wai, is generally offered first by the youngest of the two people meeting, with their hands pressed together, fingertips pointing upwards as the head is bowed to touch their face to the hands.2007, Wikipedia:Thailand
    • They were all professional to their fingertips, knew each other very well, and knew their disciplines backwards.2021 January 27, “Open Access: How to run a railway”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 38

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.
    • 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.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record

fingertip meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Thai

fingertip in Tamil

விரல்நுனி, விரல் நுனி மூடி, விரல் நுனிக் காப்பு

fingertip in Arabic

the end of the finger
بَنَان banān, أُنْمُلَة ʔunmula

fingertip in Thai

the end of the finger
ปลายนิ้ว

Examples of fingertip in a sentence

  • Long-standing diabetes often causes neuropathy in the retinas, fingertips, and toes.
  • He seemed to have all sports knowledge at his fingertips: we could scarcely finish a question before he had answered it.
  • Using your fingers, crumble the ingredients with the fingertips, lifting in an upward motion, until the mixture is sandy and resembles large breadcrumbs.

All 33 example sentences with fingertip

Forms of fingertip

Noun
pluralfingertips
Verb
third-person singular presentfingertips
present participlefingertipping
past participlefingertipped
pastfingertipped

Plural of fingertip: fingertips

Origin of fingertip

From finger + tip. Compare tiptoe and toetip.

Words formed from fingertip

Phrases with fingertip

Questions about fingertip

What does fingertip mean?
Fingertip means the tip of the human finger.
What is fingertip in Tamil?
Fingertip in Tamil is விரல்நுனி, விரல் நுனி மூடி, விரல் நுனிக் காப்பு. See Fingertip meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fingertip?
Fingertip can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fingertip?
Fingertip is pronounced /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/ (US).
What is the plural of fingertip?
The plural of fingertip is fingertips.

Words near fingertip in the dictionary

  1. fingerstyles
  2. fingersucking
  3. fingertapping
  4. fingertappings
  5. fingertight
  6. fingertip
  7. fingertip search
  8. fingertip searches
  9. fingertipful
  10. fingertipfuls
  11. fingertipped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fingertip (page history and authors); fingertip (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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