fingertip
[fing-ger-tip]
- extending to the fingertips, as a coat, veil, etc.: a fingertip jacket.
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- at one's fingertips,
- close at hand; easily or immediately available.
- at one's command or disposal, as recall of factual information: He has the answer at his fingertips.
- to one's fingertips, thoroughly; perfectly: She was a politician to her fingertips.
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Origin of fingertip
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Examples from the Web for fingertips
Contemporary Examples
Beyond large bank accounts, Silicon Valley's leaders have massive audiences of people at their fingertips.
The solution could be right at your fingertips, with a simple tilt of a glass.
How we lived so long without their archives sitting readily at our fingertips is a mystery.
And well, you just can't have that much information at your fingertips and assume no one is watching or tracking it.
She clambered naked out a third-floor window and hung by her fingertips, intending to let herself drop into the bushes below.
Historical Examples
"Like herself—alive to the fingertips," he thought, and then he propped it against the pier-glass.
The ChristianHall Caine
Dennison dug at the plate with his fingertips, but it would not come off.
ForeverRobert Sheckley
The finest music, the greatest books and art, all at your fingertips.
Cost of LivingRobert Sheckley
So, may I request you to withdraw your ray-guns with two fingertips and put them on the floor?
The Affair of the BrainsAnthony Gilmore
She ran to it, and by raising herself on her toes was able to reach the shutter with her fingertips.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
fingertip
- the end joint or tip of a finger
- another term for fingerstall
- at one's fingertips readily available and within one's mental grasp
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Word Origin and History for fingertips
fingertip
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
fingertip
(fĭng′gər-tĭp′)- The extreme end or tip of a finger.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Idioms and Phrases with fingertips
fingertips
see at one's fingertips.
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The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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