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  Finger - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
It should be noted that, despite their fingers, monkeys have not shared the same advancement because their only use of fingers is to peel bananas.
Also known as the left-clicker, the index finger is the finger that is most commonly used to press the left button on a computer mouse.
The ring finger is the only British finger on your hand, which means it always follow its biggest ally, the most powerful finger, the one finger, the little finger.
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 Hands in Scripture
The little finger is associated with the right lobe, the seat of understanding and advanced knowledge (epignosis); consequently the little finger represents the intellect and wit, science and critical thought, adventure and novelty.
A normal, square shaped tip of the little finger represents a person with self-confidence due to appreciation for who he is. He has an unobstructed viewpoint of the person that God created.
A normal sized 1st, or base, phalange of the little finger represents the value of humility, which is the basis for a true perspective of self as the person that God created and the basis for respect for authority associated with the forefinger.
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 Little finger - Wikivisual
Image:Little finger.JPG The little finger, often called the pinky in American English (from the Dutch word pink, meaning little finger), is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.
It is also called the fifth finger, the baby finger, digitus minimus, digitus quintus, or digitus V in anatomy, or the fourth finger colloquially.
In China, if one holds up a little finger at another, it is usually considered vulgar, just as holding up a middle finger in the United States and other countries is generally regarded as offensive.
en.wikivisual.com /index.php/Little_finger   (547 words)

  
 Finger — Infoplease.com
The four fingers are the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the ear finger.
The little finger is so called because it can, from its diminutive size, be most easily introduced into the conduit of the ear.
The finger between the long and little finger was used by the Romans as a ring-finger, from the belief that a nerve ran through it to the heart.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/finger.html   (420 words)

  
 finger@Everything2.com
There are some interesting patterns in the naming of fingers - ring finger somehow was known as "medicine finger" both in old english and in japanese.
The story I have heard about the Japanese "medicine finger" is that it was the finger doctors used to apply medicine.
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
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 Finger Use On Low E/f Button On C/g Anglo - Concertina.net Discussion Forums
If I were to consider using the little finger, and still finger the C/D with my index, that would leave second and ring fingers needing to "hovver", which I find too bunched.
My use of the little finger as a 'brace' is very much the exception rather than the rule.
Using the ring finger for that button, my other fingers can more easily reach the other notes I'm most likely to play in a chord, which are in the middle row (for a C chord on the push or an F chord on the pull).
www.concertina.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=7474&view=getlastpost   (1637 words)

  
  Finger (1) - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The fingers were decorated with rings of precious metal, which, with other jewelry worn ostentatiously on the body, often formed the only possession of the wearer, and were therefore carefully guarded.
The "finger of God," like the "hand of God," is synonymous with power, omnipotence, sometimes with the additional meaning of the infallible evidence of Divine authorship visible in all His works (Psalms 8:3; Luke 11:20), especially in His law (Exodus 8:19; 31:18; Deuteronomy 9:10; compare Exodus 32:15,16).
The finger or digit as a linear measure is mentioned in Jeremiah 52:21 (Greek daktulos; Josephus, Ant, VIII, iii, 4).
www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3431   (288 words)

  
  Little finger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The little finger, often called the pinky in American English (from the Dutch word pink, meaning little finger), is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.
It is also called the fifth finger, the baby finger, digitus minimus, digitus quintus, or digitus V in anatomy, or the fourth finger colloquially.
In a similar vein, among members of the Japanese yakuza (gangsters), the penalty for various offenses is removal of parts of the little finger (known as yubitsume).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_finger   (533 words)

  
 The German, Finger Manual Alphabet. Page
C: thumb and index finger form 3/4 (three fourth) of a circle (like the written c in visual print), other fingers are parallel to the index finger; the opening of the c shows to the left.
D: thumb and middle finger form a circle the index finger is stretchd up, the other fingers are parallel to the middle finger; the index finger is near to your body.
little and ring finger like a fist, thumb tutches the middle joint of the midddle finger which is stretched out, index finger is stretched out but more back than the middle finger.
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 "In Search of the Heroes": Tragedy to Triumph--Helen Keller
C -- Fingers and thumb curled to the shape of the letter "C", the thumb forming the lower part of the curl, and the hand held to show the "C" to the viewer.
E -- All four fingers curled downward, with the thumb across the center of the palm and the upper side of the thumb against the end of the fingers.
L -- Hand in a fist, but with the index finger pointed upward and the thumb pointing to the side to form the letter L. -- Three fingers--index, middle and ring--curled downward, with the thumb holding the little finger against the palm.
www.graceproducts.com /keller/finger.html   (960 words)

  
 Jacob's Ladder String Figure Family
Release little fingers from their loops (this is most easily done with the opposite hand).
Insert your little fingers into these loops and hook onto the long dangling string with the front of your little fingers.
Pull little fingers with the string they have picked up back away from you out of the thumb loops, which you then allow to drop off your thumbs.
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 Finger Meditations a.k.a. Mudras
The ring finger is associated with Apollo, the sun god, and the root chakra, which rules the pelvic floor.
Since the Chinese healing practitioners found the heart meridian to be in this finger, this confirms the yogis' thesis relating the water element to it (water symbolizes the realm of the emotions).
Now encircle your left little finger with the four fingers of your right hand, with your right thumb extending to the middle of your left hand.
www.innerself.com /Meditation/finger_mudras.htm   (2306 words)

  
 Peter Maffay
Little Finger hat Gartenbau studiert und mehr als 20 Jahre beim indianischen Gesundheitsamt gearbeitet.
Leonard Little Finger, spricht von einem schleichenden Genozid, von einer bewussten und geplanten Ausrottung, die nunmehr seit hunderten von Jahren stattfindet.
Seit vielen Jahren setzt sich Little Finger für den Erhalt der indianischen Kultur ein.
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 Volume 4, finger appearance
  The smallest finger is the little finger.
The three fingers, index, middle, and ring finger should be held closely together and bent down from the inner joint.
The author means the finger technique for the other fingers is the same when using the middle finger to play either a harmonic or a non-harmonic pressed note.
web.cecs.pdx.edu /~jrb/chin/v47/v47.htm   (4023 words)

  
 Guitar Lesson 8 - Barre and Little Finger Exercise
Place the bottom of the 1st finger (not the finger tip) - across the 1st and 2nd strings - at the 1st fret.
The little finger / barre exercise should be repeated often.
The idea is to use your little finger often.
www.radioyur.com /les8.html   (382 words)

  
 Selective recruitment of single motor units in human flexor digitorum superficialis muscle during flexion of individual ...
B, recording of single unit activity of the index finger component of FDS during weak contractions of the index finger and during three ramp contractions of the little finger to 50% maximum voluntary contraction (MVC).
The total number of finger flexions that were assigned 60% as they did not produce activity in the test units were 36 of 61 and 70 of 120 for the incomplete and complete data sets, respectively.
For contractions of non-test fingers, more than 50% of units were not recruited with contraction ramps to 50% MVC, except for little finger units when the ring finger was contracting.
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 Great Moments in Science - Sexy Finger - Part One
If the fourth finger of your right hand is longer than your second finger, then you are probably a super spunk, a stud-muffin, a testosterone tiger.
On average, you (with the longer fourth finger) will have a higher sperm count, a higher level of testosterone, and a lower incidence of germ cell failure -where you have a zero or very low sperm count.
Women who had a fourth finger shorter than their second finger would have higher levels of various female hormones such as oestrogen, prolactin and luteinising hormone.
www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s48816.htm   (720 words)

  
 ADDING THE RIGHT HAND LITTLE FINGER TO GUITAR TECHNIQUE
Adding the little finger to the right hand technique of classical guitar is a concept that various guitarists have contemplated and attempted since 1825, but lacked the time and/or resources necessary for such a task.
The little finger alternates quite easily with the index and middle fingers, but is very awkward when alternating with the ring finger, with which it has very little natural independence.
I now alternate little to middle to index (cmi) and it has proved to be even faster, due to the little finger’s strength and its extra independence from the middle finger.
www.worldguitarist.com /postlewate.html   (3791 words)

  
 Fingering Scheme for Saxophone - The Woodwind Fingering Guide
The G# key is the topmost key in the little finger key group and is used primarily for playing first– and second–octave G#.
The low C# key is the outer key in the little finger key group and is used primarily for playing low C#.
For a fingering involving more than one trilled key, the trilled keys are to be trilled simultaneously unless specified as alternating in the fingering description.
www.wfg.woodwind.org /sax/sax_fing.html   (609 words)

  
 History of The Finger
Giving someone "the finger" is one of the basest violations in modern culture, but its origins date back over 2500 years.
It has been argued by anthropologists that the finger is a a variant of a classic "phallic aggressive" gesture used by primates.
The finger, or convicium facio (meaning, I provoke an argument) was a "natural expression of scorn and contempt." Although he thought it was horrid to use, the deaf might have had no better way to express themselves after someone dumped the contents of a chamber pot on them in the street.
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 Buddha's Little Finger
This winter the avenues were scoured by a blizzard straight off the steppes, and I should not have been in the least surprised to have come face to face with a pair of wolves during the course of my walk.
The bronze Pushkin seemed a little sadder than usual — no doubt because his breast was covered with a red apron bearing the inscription: `Long Live the First Anniversary of the Revolution'.
A little further off I noticed a frightening-looking armoured car with its machine-gun turret buried under a cap of snow, but I had no time for a closer look, for the sailors had already plunged into the gateway.
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 Official Site of Livingston County New York Tourism - Wineries - The Little Finger Lakes Wine Path
Livingston County Tourism Director, Lisa Burns unveiled the new Little Finger Lakes "Wine Path" brochure on Saturday night at the Little Finger Lakes Food Festival Dinner held at Eagle Crest Vineyards on Hemlock Lake.
The Little Finger Lakes Wine Path Brochure is available at the county operated visitor's centers in Geneseo and Dansville and at many local retailers, restaurants, hotels, Bed and Breakfasts and at each winery.
The second oldest continually operating winery in the Finger Lakes Region, Eagle Crest was established in 1872 by Bishop McQuaid from the Diocese of Rochester as a source of sacramental wines for regional churches.
www.fingerlakeswest.com /wineries.html   (514 words)

  
 Little Finger
People with long little fingers have a high I.Q. They make good writers and speakers and have a strong sex drive.
If the little finger is low set it indicates the person as a child had a problem with one of their parents.
If the little finger sticks out from the hand it may indicate the person is involved in a relationship they do not want to be in.
www.paralumun.com /palmfinglit.htm   (81 words)

  
 RonC's Tip 1
With the index finger in the middle "base" position or a little wider and the little finger spread wide your ball will have a much weaker back end.
The little finger is wide and the index is in.
To curl your little finger just bend it at the first joint so the ball will be next to the finger nail.
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 The Session: Discussions - funny little finger
The muscles which bend the finger joints are located in the palm and up in the mid forearm, and are connected to the finger bones by tendons, which pull on and move the fingers like the strings of a marionette.
If your hand is gripping the end of the fingerboard it pulls all your fingers back towards the scroll which can lead to problems with tuning and with reaching to the fourth finger position (little finger).
When playing the cello the 4th (little) finger does the work normally done by the 3rd finger on the fiddle.
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 Left Hand Finger Exercises   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For example the index on the 5th fret, the middle on the 6th fret, the ring on the 7th fret and the little on the 8th fret.
Now lift your middle finger and the little finger in a similar manner and place on the B string.
Then, and this is important, move your index finger down one fret not letting the other finger tips move and being sure to have a space between the index and middle fingers.
www.bluegrassbanjo.org /lefthand.html   (389 words)

  
 "Buddha's Little Finger" by Victor Pelevin - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A s astounding as it is frustrating, "Buddha's Little Finger" is Victor Pelevin's shabby, messy but often visionary take on his native Russia.
A surreal collection of the drugged-out dreams of three patients in a Moscow mental ward in the early 1990s, the novel relies less on narrative thrust than it does on satirical vignettes that are alternately biting and toothless.
"Buddha's Little Finger" mostly follows the (imagined) adventures of 26-year-old Pyotr Voyd, who thinks that he is suffering flashbacks from the Russian civil war.
dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/05/05/pelevin/index.html   (670 words)

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