transcription, транскрипция: [ θʌm ]
( thumbs, thumbing, thumbed)
1.
Your thumb is the short thick part on the side of your hand next to your four fingers.
She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.
N-COUNT
2.
If you thumb a lift or thumb a ride, you stand by the side of the road holding out your thumb until a driver stops and gives you a lift.
It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory’s description thumbed a ride to Howth...
Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.
= hitch
VERB : V n to n , V n
3.
see also well-thumbed
4.
If you say that someone or something sticks out like a sore thumb or stands out like a sore thumb , you are emphasizing that they are very noticeable, usually because they are unusual or inappropriate.
Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?...
PHRASE : V and N inflect [ emphasis ]
5.
If you say that someone is twiddling their thumbs , you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.
The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling...
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
If you are under someone’s thumb , you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father’s thumb...
PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v
7.
green thumb: see green
to thumb your nose at someone : see nose
rule of thumb: see rule