Fingering meaning

fĭng'gər-ĭng
A touching or handling with the fingers.
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The technique used in playing a musical instrument with the fingers.
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The indication on a musical score of which fingers are to be used in playing.
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Fingering Sentence Examples

  • "Is that what this is?" she asked, fingering the charm.

  • He grabbed one of the Immortal books, fingering the soft, leather-like cover and transparent pages.

  • He had a Groucho Marx way about him, flicking an eyebrow up and down while fingering a Brillo mustache.

  • She lay on the sofa with her face to the wall, fingering the buttons of the leather cushion and seeing nothing but that cushion, and her confused thoughts were centered on one subject--the irrevocability of death and her own spiritual baseness, which she had not suspected, but which had shown itself during her father's illness.

  • Most of the tablature available on the Internet shows just the fingering for a song, in ASCII text.

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