Definition of fingerhold in English:

fingerhold

noun ˈfɪŋɡəhəʊld

1A small indentation or projection where a person can lodge a finger to support themselves.
Example sentencesExamples
- He's one of those movie actors that can bite nails in two and climb up the side of a church with only a fingerhold.
- She could not believe that the goats could climb so steep an incline so nimbly, when she was barely able to find a fingerhold in the rock.
- A thought-provoking reach from a sharp fingerhold on the roof's lip gains a strenuous and exposed upper wall.
- Progress was painfully slow: they had to test every fingerhold before they dared trust it with their weight.
- She scrambled frantically at the rock with her left, found a fingerhold and dangled precariously over a vertical drop.
Synonyms
grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, anchorage, support, grasp
1. 1.1 A tenuous grasp on something.
  the script gives her no more than a fingerhold on the story
  the final fingerhold on fame
  Example sentencesExamples
  The hope is that the numbers can be crunched in some direction which will offer enough of a fingerhold to justify a decision.
  Her sole fingerhold on the network, her Sunday show, is going to be taken over by Letitia.
  The extent to which beliefs can be modified by doubt gives me a bit of a fingerhold onto how beliefs can be chosen by dint of one's will.
  The earliest settlers had little time for aesthetic pursuits during their first decades of hewing out a tenuous fingerhold on the North American mainland.
  He stated that the Vote is little more than a fingerhold on democracy.

词汇	fingerhold
释义	Definition of fingerhold in English: fingerhold noun ˈfɪŋɡəhəʊld 1A small indentation or projection where a person can lodge a finger to support themselves. Example sentencesExamples He's one of those movie actors that can bite nails in two and climb up the side of a church with only a fingerhold. She could not believe that the goats could climb so steep an incline so nimbly, when she was barely able to find a fingerhold in the rock. A thought-provoking reach from a sharp fingerhold on the roof's lip gains a strenuous and exposed upper wall. Progress was painfully slow: they had to test every fingerhold before they dared trust it with their weight. She scrambled frantically at the rock with her left, found a fingerhold and dangled precariously over a vertical drop. Synonyms grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, anchorage, support, grasp 1.1 A tenuous grasp on something. the script gives her no more than a fingerhold on the story the final fingerhold on fame Example sentencesExamples The hope is that the numbers can be crunched in some direction which will offer enough of a fingerhold to justify a decision. Her sole fingerhold on the network, her Sunday show, is going to be taken over by Letitia. The extent to which beliefs can be modified by doubt gives me a bit of a fingerhold onto how beliefs can be chosen by dint of one's will. The earliest settlers had little time for aesthetic pursuits during their first decades of hewing out a tenuous fingerhold on the North American mainland. He stated that the Vote is little more than a fingerhold on democracy.
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