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US
/ˈfɪŋɡɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /fˈɪŋɡəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪŋɡəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- touching something with the fingers
- the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument
How To Use fingering In A Sentence
- Everyone stared at her as the young woman strutted into the room, fingering a spaghetti strap of her red minidress with plunging neckline.
- Supported by an angelic chorus and lush orchestration, Gibb extolled the virtues of "fingering foreign dirty holes," arguing that while love may be grand, he'd rather "let 'coupledom' die Spinner
- By now he was in a huddle with two locals, fingering silent chords while one of them played something softly on a penny whistle.
- I was fingering my car keys, wondering if my perverse appetite would last all the way to Tesco's and back, when I had a sudden brainwave.
- See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
- I can see her now, fingering her brittle bangs, blinking so fast that this microscopist she's found might be alarmed if he were to look at her, but he has not done much of that; instead he peers at the monitor, uses a sterling accessory to show her the worms. Florida
- When playing a full orchestral or band score, distributing the notes between the hands and making choices regarding fingering can be challenging.
- As a result, pianists are required to negotiate unusual combinations of note groupings and clusters that go beyond the fingerings used in traditional scales, arpeggios and chords.
- After a few weeks of learning the fingering on the chanter, and learning to keep the bag full to generate the sound, though, Cowling figured he was just about ready to try out his two songs onstage.
- She darted off straight after that, leaving Melanie fingering her cheek in surprise.