fingering

Pluralfingerings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The use of your fingers when playing a musical instrument.

   Like learning where to put each finger, the way you learn dance steps.

   Good fingering makes fast passages much easier to play.

   The teacher watched her fingering closely during the scales.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A set way of placing your fingers to play a piece of music.

   Like a set of steps that tells you exactly how to do something.

   She wrote a new fingering above the tricky chord.

   There are several fingerings that work for this scale.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   Touching your own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus with the fingers for sexual pleasure.

   Fingering was something they explored early in their relationship.

   She said that gentle fingering was part of their foreplay.

4. 4
   verb

   Present participle of finger. Use this form for the action while it is happening.

   She was fingering the soft fabric as she thought it over.

   He kept fingering the coins in his pocket.

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A thin wool yarn used for knitting stockings.

   Like thin thread, but made of wool for knitting.

   She bought a skein of fingering to knit warm socks.

   This pattern calls for fingering rather than thicker yarn.

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