fingering
fingering Lexical Profile
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• noun
In music, the method or technique of using specific fingers to play an instrument, or the numerical markings on sheet music indicating which fingers to use.
"The piano teacher penciled a simpler fingering above the rapid sixteenth-note passage."
The act of touching, feeling, or handling something repeatedly or idly with the fingers.
"Years of nervous fingering had worn the edges of the leather bookmark completely smooth."
A fine, lightweight, loosely twisted worsted yarn used especially for knitting socks, baby clothes, and delicate garments.
"She selected a soft merino fingering to knit the intricate lace shawl."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in Middle English as the verbal noun of 'finger' (from Old English 'finger'), with the musical sense recorded from the 17th century. The textile sense describing fine knitting yarn likely derives from the use of the fingers in spinning or working delicate worsted threads.