noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fingertip search British English (= a careful search for clues by police officers )
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Police have started a fingertip search of the area and appealed for witnesses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
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She could still feel , from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
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We concentrate on what we feel with our wet fingertips , as we caress, with the moonlight as witness.
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Kirov felt it with his fingertips and rapped his knuckles against the main body of the sink unit.
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Surgeons learn through direct experience of individual cases - through what they see, hear, and feel at their fingertips .
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She felt his fingertips , cold and clammy with perspiration.
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He shuddered, feeling cold fingertips touch his nerves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Darla touched Tom's ear with her fingertip .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large part of the area was sealed off following the arrests as police carried out a fingertip search for bullets.
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Crumble butter with fingertips to coarse cornmeal-like consistency, keeping butter well-coated with flour to prevent it from becoming greasy.
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Gusts of freezing wind bite at exposed skin while stinging darts of cold assault gloved fingertips.
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Norm sat down and drummed his fingertips on the table.
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Traces of her red nail varnish, he noticed, could still be seen where her fingertips hadn't been eaten.
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Truman had unprecedented power at his fingertips and a program for the world that he believed was self-evidently good.