Fingering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FINGERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• touch or feel with the fingers
• play (a musical instrument) with the fingers, especially in a tentative or casual manner
• inform on (someone) to the police
• identify or select
• play (a passage) with a particular sequence of positions of the fingers.
• mark (music) with signs showing which fingers are to be used.
NOUN:
• the choice of fingers in playing a musical instrument
• each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included)
• a part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
• a measure of spirits in a glass, based on the breadth of a finger
• an object that has roughly the long, narrow shape of a finger
• technique of using the fingers in playing a musical instrument
• The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
• The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.
• The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
• Delicate work made with the fingers.
• the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument
• touching something with the fingers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to touch with the fingers (the terminating members of the hand)

Words related to FINGERING

finger10 fingered13 fingerings15 fingers11

Words that contain FINGERING

fingerings15 befingering18

How to use FINGERING in a sentence

• Then fingering an imaginary watch-chain, she began.
• So without further parley, the fellows crept into the little cabin, each fingering his naked weapon, which made me feel very sick with apprehension of bloodshed.
• He clutched at her arm, and made close before her face the hungry, Mediterranean gesture of fingering money.
• As she moved about the room, nervously fingering the books and trifles upon the table or the mantle, she seemed beside herself with anxiety.
• Oliver had bent over to look at this ornament and was fingering it, his dark head close to hers.
• John Copeland, standing by the seaward window, had picked up a lute and was fingering the instrument half-idly.
• She moved about the place, fingering the rare tapestries, contemplating probably what gorgeous hangings they would make for her own apartment.
• You cannot make a mistake about it, if you do not try to play it too fast, and if you carefully observe the fingering indicated.
• In order to avoid the habit of false fingering, you should not play any piece which is not marked for the proper fingers.
• She had paled and was fingering her liqueur-glass absently.
• The two paused, Fuzl Khan nervously fingering the knife he had taken from the sentinel on the bastion.
• While fingering his own pinch and offering the box around him with another charming gesture accompanied with kindly smiles, he noticed the pleasure which his visit gave.
• The old woman was nervously fingering the cards, and muttering to herself.
• There he played with it, or rather sat hugging it, stroking it, or fingering it, in a dead silence.
• He stood for a moment fingering each piece of his scanty clothing, recalling every piece of labor or battle which had added pouch, belt, strip of fabric to his equipment.
• For a few minutes he sat silent, fingering some article belonging to her which was lying on the table.
• He sat by her side, fingering some of the things in her work basket.
• Softly fingering the strings she picked out the notes of the Indian lament that kept repeating itself in her mind.
• One is fingering a guitar without playing any particular tune, and the other has his hat cocked over his eyes in a burlesque, dude-like manner.
• Suddenly he paused in this idle fingering of the cards.
• They expressed great surprise at the Europeans being able to add numbers together without fingering.
• His grandmother once called Solomon Ansell a Sabbath-female merely for fingering the shovel when there was nothing in the grate.
• She went to the vast Regency desk, idly fingering papers, and laid hold of a document.
• The reporter found the old man sitting on the porch of his Iber City shack, thoughtfully chewing tobacco and fingering his home-made cane.
• Cuningham was immensely proud of them, and had been quite ready to show them to Fenwick also, fingering their fresh folds, enlarging on their beauties.
• He believes in employing a fingering which is most comfortable to the hand, as well as one which, in the long run, will render the passage most effective.
• He is most sensitive to the choice of fingering the player makes, and believes that each finger can produce a different quality of tone.
• The difference between the two types is mainly in the fingering.
• He took it up, placed it in the money-drawer, and stood some time fingering over the change and small bills.

Similar words containing FINGER without suffix ing

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