1. The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument
   "The guitarist practised the complex fingering required for the solo"
    
2. Touching something with the fingers
   "The detective's careful fingering of the evidence"

1. Feel or handle with the fingers
   "finger the binding of the book";
   - thumb
    
2. Examine by touch
   "The customer fingered the sweater";
   - feel
    
3. [informal] Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
   "She fingered the man on the 'wanted' poster";
   - identify, place
    
4. Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
   "The piano teacher fingered the difficult passage in the sonata"
    
5. [informal] Search for on the computer
   "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
    
6. [informal] Sexually stimulate using a finger or fingers
   "He fingered her gently";

Derived forms: fingerings

Type of: designate, determine, emplacement, examine, indicate, location, look for, placement, point, position, positioning, search, see, seek, set, show, touch, touching

Part of: musical performance

Encyclopedia: Fingering