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{
"term": "thumb",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/bo/body_hand.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the short, thick finger at the side of the hand, slightly apart from the other four",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She still **sucks her thumb** when she's worried."
},
{
"text": "He smiled and raised a thumb in greeting."
},
{
"text": "I picked up the beetle carefully between finger and thumb."
},
{
"text": "I stuck out a thumb and a car stopped immediately."
}
],
"topics": ["Body"],
"collocations": {
"verb + thumb": ["suck", "flick", "jab"],
"thumb + noun": ["nail"],
"phrases": [
"between finger and thumb",
"between thumb and forefinger",
"thumbs up"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the part of a glove that covers the thumb",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There's a hole in the thumb."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do something",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to hope that your plans will be successful or that something will take place in the way that you want it to",
"labels": "(South African English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Let's hold thumbs that you get the job."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a practical method of doing or measuring something, usually based on past experience rather than on exact measurement",
"examples": [
{
"text": "As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound of weight."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very easy to notice in an unpleasant way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The blue building stood out like a sore thumb among the whitewashed villas."
},
{
"text": "If you wear a suit to the party, you’ll stand out like a sore thumb."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to show that something has been accepted/rejected or that it is/is not a success",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their proposals **were given the thumbs down**."
},
{
"text": "It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album."
},
{
"text": "He made a thumbs-up sign through the window to tell us everything was fine."
}
],
"topics": ["Success", "Difficulty and failure"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to move your thumbs around each other with your fingers joined together",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to do nothing while you are waiting for something to happen",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We can't just sit here twiddling our thumbs and hoping everything will be all right."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "completely controlled by somebody",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She’s got him under her thumb."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/θʌm/",
"audio": "th/thumb/thumb__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/θʌm/",
"audio": "th/thumb/thumb__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English thūma, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch duim and German Daumen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tumere ‘to swell’. The verb dates from the late 16th cent., first in the sense ‘play (a musical instrument) with the thumbs’."
}