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FINGER-SPELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finger-spell mean? 

FINGER-SPELL (verb)
  The verb FINGER-SPELL has 1 sense:

1. communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign languageplay

  Familiarity information: FINGER-SPELL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FINGER-SPELL (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

finger-spell; fingerspell

Context example:

The Deaf often fingerspell

Hypernyms (to "finger-spell" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


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