FINGERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fingering mean? 

• FINGERING (noun)
  The noun FINGERING has 2 senses:

1. the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument

2. touching something with the fingers

  Familiarity information: FINGERING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINGERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fingering" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Holonyms ("fingering" is a part of...):

musical performance (the act of performing music)

Derivation:

finger (indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Touching something with the fingers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fingering" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Derivation:

finger (examine by touch)

finger (feel or handle with the fingers)

 Context examples 

She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As I sat there, fingering the cards in an abstracted way, some chance led me to observe the small needle-pricks which you have just felt.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Caldwell sat for a full minute, silent and fingering his watch chain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It went from hand to hand, one tearing it from another; and by the oaths and the cries and the childish laughter with which they accompanied their examination, you would have thought, not only they were fingering the very gold, but were at sea with it, besides, in safety.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)