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Image:Thumbup.jpg|thumb|A human thumb
English

Etymology
OE. term|þuma|þūma|langang, from Ger., from IE. tūmon- �thick finger�, from *tū- �swell� (compare Latin term|tumere|langla). Cognate with Dutch term|duim|langnl, German term|Daumen|langde.

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-thumb.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|�m

Noun
en-noun

1. The short thick digit of the human hand that has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
2. computing The part of a slider that may be moved up and down or along the slider.

Synonyms
i-c|digit pollex i|technical, thumby i|colloquial

Translations
trans-top|digit
Basque: hazlodi
Bosnian: t-|bs|palac|m
Breton: biz-meud m, (plural bizied-meud), meud m, (plural -où)
Bulgarian: t+|bg|пале�|m|sc=Cyrl
Catalan: polze m
Chinese: 大��
Croatian: t+|hr|palac|m
Czech: t-|cs|palec|m
Danish: tommelfinger, tommeltot
Dutch: t+|nl|duim|m
Erzya: пел�ка (pelka)
Esperanto: t-|eo|polekso|xsEsperanto, t-|eo|dikfingro|xsEsperanto
Finnish: t+|fi|peukalo
French: t+|fr|pouce|m
Frisian: tomme
German: Daumen m :de:Daumen|(de)
Hindi: ����ठा (angooththa)
Icelandic: t+|is|þumall|m, t-|is|þumalfingur|m
Indonesian: t+|id|ibu jari|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: pollice
Italian: t+|it|pollice|m, t-|it|dito grosso|m
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Japanese: 親� (����, oyayubi)
Korean: �� (eomji), ����� (eomjisongarak)
Latin: t-|la|pollex|m
Marathi: ����ठा (ãngththa)
Melayu: ibu jari
Northern Sami: bealgi
Pitjantjatjara: unicode|ma�a mama
Polish: t-|pl|kciuk|m
Portuguese: t-|pt|dedo polegar|m, t-|pt|polegar|m
Romanian: t-|ro|deget mare|n
Russian: t+|ru|бол��ой пале�|m|trbol'šój pál'ec|scCyrl
Slovak: t-|sk|palec|m
Slovene: t+|sl|palec|m
Spanish: t-|es|pulgar|m
Swedish: t+|sv|tumme
Telugu: బ��నవ�ల� (boTanavElu)
Turkish: t-|tr|ba�parmak|m
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trans-top|computing: of a slider
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Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To touch with the thumb.
2. transitive To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.

#:I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.

Synonyms
i-c|to turn pages browse, leaf, page, peruse

Derived terms
rel-top|terms derived from "thumb"
all fingers and thumbs
all thumbs
brown thumb
green thumb
opposable thumb
rule of thumb
stick out like a sore thumb
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thumb a lift, thumb a ride
thumb one's nose
thumbnail
thumbprint
thumb wrestle
thumbs up
under one's thumb, under the thumb
well-thumbed
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See also
digit
finger

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