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Meaning of "fingerhold" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FINGERHOLD

fingerhold  [ˈfɪŋɡəˌhəʊld] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FINGERHOLD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fingerhold is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FINGERHOLD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fingerhold in the English dictionary

The definition of fingerhold in the dictionary is something onto which the fingers can hold.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FINGERHOLD


behold
bɪˈhəʊld
chokehold
ˈtʃəʊkˌhəʊld
commonhold
ˈkɒmənˌhəʊld
copyhold
ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊld
foothold
ˈfʊtˌhəʊld
freehold
ˈfriːˌhəʊld
handhold
ˈhændˌhəʊld
hold
həʊld
household
ˈhaʊsˌhəʊld
leasehold
ˈliːsˌhəʊld
lifehold
ˈlaɪfˌhəʊld
roothold
ˈruːtˌhəʊld
stokehold
ˈstəʊkˌhəʊld
stranglehold
ˈstræŋɡəlˌhəʊld
stronghold
ˈstrɒŋˌhəʊld
throttlehold
ˈθrɒtəlˌhəʊld
toehold
ˈtəʊˌhəʊld
uphold
ʌpˈhəʊld
withhold
wɪðˈhəʊld
wormholed
ˈwɜːmˌhəʊld

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FINGERHOLD

finger wave
finger-dry
finger´s breadth
fingerboard
fingerbreadth
fingered
fingered tremolo
fingerer
fingerglass
fingerguard
fingerhole
fingering
fingerless
fingerlike
fingerling
fingerling potato
fingermark
fingernail
fingerpick
fingerprint

WORDS THAT END LIKE FINGERHOLD

absolute threshold
buttonhold
difference threshold
Japanese stranglehold
Meyerhold
nuclear threshold
on hold
opposition hold
overhold
overwithhold
subthreshold
threshold
wrestling hold

Synonyms and antonyms of fingerhold in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fingerhold» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FINGERHOLD

Find out the translation of fingerhold to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fingerhold from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fingerhold» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

fingerhold
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

para los dedos
570 millions of speakers

English

fingerhold
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fingerhold
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fingerhold
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

fingerhold
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fingerhold
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

fingerhold
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de doigt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Faset
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fingergriff
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

指掛
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fingerhold
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Driji
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cầm chặt bàn tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fingerhold
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फिंगलर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fingerhold
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

appiglio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fingerhold
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

fingerhold
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fingerhold
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

fingerhold
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fingerhold
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fingerhold
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fingerhold
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fingerhold

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FINGERHOLD»

The term «fingerhold» is used very little and occupies the 187.490 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of fingerhold
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «fingerhold».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FINGERHOLD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fingerhold» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fingerhold» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fingerhold

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FINGERHOLD»

Discover the use of fingerhold in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fingerhold and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies
He'd jump up, get a fingerhold, and then dirt would give way and he'd slip back down. Jump up, get a fingerhold, slip back down. Jump up. Slip down. Over and over again he tried to jump out, until he was exhausted. Then he began calming ...
Mary Hamilton, 2012
2
American Woodworker
Next, make a small fingerhold for the storage compartment. Measure the diameter just inside the bottom opening of the apple. Cut a strip of wood Vi6 in. longer than this measurement, Vs in. thick and xk in. wide. Carve a finger indentation into ...
3
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
A golf club adapted to be grasped by the hand, having an enlarged yielding bulb- like fingerhold adapted to be grasped only by one or more of the fingers of the hand not utilized in delivering the stroke, said fingerhold preventing the said ...
United States. Patent Office, 1917
4
Black Hole Butterfly:
The lip was only about halfan inch high, a riveted joint between themetalside andthe metal roof. It only took a fewpounds of pressure to climb vertical faces—as long ashe had that halfinch fingerhold. Rook countedto one,grunted and swung ...
Salem, 2014
5
The ELL Writer: Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom
... —smallledges and crevices—that my chalkedfingers dug intoasI swung myweight against the rock—sometimes moving up, sometimes moving laterally to a better position—but always inching higher tothe top, fingerhold by fingerhold.
Christina Ortmeier-Hooper
6
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 1: Kelim: ...
I have assigned it to the jar: if the finger-hold of the plug was below the top of the jar, then it is within the airspace of the jar. If an insect is in the finger-hold, it is going to affect the airspace of the jar (E-F), and the fingerhold in turn is going to form ...
Jacob Neusner, 2006
7
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish : ...and Other ...
Much like a rock climber scaling a cliff, HIV needs both a toe- and a fingerhold in order to infect the immune system cells it targets. In the mid 1980s, researchers discovered the fingerhold — a protein called CD4 on the surface of the immune ...
Lisa Seachrist Chiu, 2007
8
Video Verite and Other Stories
What Paul didn't know was whether it was a small fingerhold or something larger that would actually support his weight. It was a terrible unknown because he knew he would have to jump to reach the moss and if it were merely a fingerhold,  ...
William Petrick, 2010
9
Amon's Adventure: A Family Story for Easter
The moss-covered stones were slippery, and so perfectly fitted that there was barely a fingerhold between them. By working his way up slowly, though, Amon was able to find a toehold here, a fingerhold there. He climbed up into the wind, and ...
Arnold Ytreeide, 2010
10
Traditional Projects
V FINGERHOLD IS CUT WITH A GOUGE. The swinging-leaf support, cut on the end with a gentle cyma curve, nests against the apron end, which gets cut with a slightly more exaggerated curve. The back of the support is relieved with a gouge  ...
Fine Woodworking, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FINGERHOLD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fingerhold is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jacco Eltingh (Ned) / Paul Haarhuis (Ned) beat Todd Woodbridge …
Roger accelerating now, in to the net, first serve out wide, not a fingerhold for Murray to take. He'll be serving now to stay in the set. Murray* 4-5 Federer. Reuters. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
2
Tomorrowland's flop recalls past Disney disaster movies
... open, releases on 4 July. If it at least matches the original's $45.2m there, that's one more fingerhold further up the global box office cliff-face. «The Guardian, May 15»
3
From prison to Parliament: The former drug dealer who turned his …
Matters worsened when another fingerhold on reality crumbled. "I lost my grandfather to cancer – he was my best friend, brother, everything ... «Stoke Sentinel, Apr 15»
4
Cricket World Cup: Double Rubel, then toil and trouble
... with him hope and effervescence, and immediately had Sharma caught at deep mid-wicket. and the Bangladeshis had their fingerhold back. «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
5
Shopping in austerity: not consuming, just surviving
So what happens when a group of people whose already tenuous fingerhold on the consumer mainstream is weakened by bedroom tax, ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
6
El Capitan is vast and terrifying. This is an extraordinary breakthrough
As climbing has gained a fingerhold in the American psyche, part of that wholesome, optimistic narrative that outdoor brands like Patagonia try ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
7
Security concerns arise over local Madrassa
“They are also doing a lot of damage by allowing the far right to gain a fingerhold in Europe.” Atif, asked for his opinion of the factors that drive ... «MaltaToday, Jan 15»
8
Good Muslims love the country they live in - Laiq Ahmed Atif
“They are also doing a lot of damage by allowing the far right to gain a fingerhold in Europe”. Atif, asked what his opinion of the factors that drive ... «MaltaToday, Jan 15»
9
Haydn the opera composer - why are his stage works neglected?
... to name but two modern-day Haydn pioneers; but more broadly, Haydn's operas have never gained more than a fingerhold on the cliff face of ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
10
Animal Aid's smear story causes hurt and anger but keeps it in …
It does not have so much as a fingerhold in mainstream politics and probably never will. One of the small band of true believers, however, ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»

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