Claw vs. Finger

A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.

A foot equipped with such.

The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.

A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.

(botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.

(juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.

To scratch or to tear at.

To use the claws to seize, to grip.

To use the claws to climb.

(juggling) To perform a claw catch.

To move with one's fingertips.

(obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.

(obsolete) To rail at; to scold.

To flatter; to fawn on (a person).

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.

To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.

Example: ‘Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.’;

To rail at; to scold.

Example: ‘In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.’;

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.

sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

a structure like a pincer on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

a bird's foot that has claws

move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging;

Example: ‘They clawed their way to the top of the mountain’;

clutch as if in panic;

Example: ‘She clawed the doorknob’;

scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

attack as if with claws;

Example: ‘The politician clawed his rival’;

a curved pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals.

either of a pair of small hooked appendages on an insect's foot.

the pincer of a crab, scorpion, or other arthropod.

a mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.

scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails

Example: ‘the kitten was clawing at Lowell's trouser leg’; ‘her hands clawed his shoulders’;

clutch at something with the hands

Example: ‘his fingers clawed at the air’;

make one's way with difficulty by hauling oneself forward with one's hands

Example: ‘she was determined to claw her way out of poverty and find fame’; ‘he clawed his way over a pile of bricks’;

try desperately to move or remove something with the hands

Example: ‘rescuers clawed away rubble with their bare hands’;

scratch (a part of one's body) gently so as to relieve itching.

(of a sailing ship) beat to windward

Example: ‘the ability to claw off a lee shore’;

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or tarsus for gripping a surface as they walk.

(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.

Example: ‘Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.’;

(zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:

The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.

One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.

One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).

Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:

(cuisine) Finger-shaped pieces of food.

Example: ‘chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers’;

(chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.

(D. purpurea).

Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:

Example: ‘a finger of land; a finger of smoke’;

(botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.

A lobe of the liver.

(historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.

The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.

(nautical) nodot=a: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.

(aviation) nodot=a: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.

Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

(obsolete) nodot=a, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.

A policeman or prison guard.

An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.

A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.

(figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.

Example: ‘The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.’;

(units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

(historical) nodot=a: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 16{{nbsp}}foot (about 1.9{{nbsp}}cm).

(historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½{{nbsp}}inches (11.43{{nbsp}}cm).

(historical) nodot=a: 12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.

An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.

Example: ‘Gimme three fingers of bourbon.’;

(fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.

Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.

Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.

A person.

(especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.

(transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.

(transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.

(transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang

To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.

To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.

To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.

(obsolete) To steal; to purloin.

To execute, as any delicate work.

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extremities of the hand, other than the thumb.

Anything that does the work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine;

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.

Example: ‘A piece of steel three fingers thick.’;

Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.

Example: ‘She has a good finger.’;

To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.

Example: ‘Let the papers lie;You would be fingering them to anger me.’;

To touch lightly; to toy with.

To perform on an instrument of music.

To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.

To execute, as any delicate work.

To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb);

Example: ‘her fingers were long and thin’;

the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

the part of a glove that provides a covering for one of the fingers

feel or handle with the fingers;

Example: ‘finger the binding of the book’;

examine by touch;

Example: ‘Feel this soft cloth!’; ‘The customer fingered the sweater’;

search for on the computer;

Example: ‘I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons’;

indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments

A finger is a limb of the human body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates. Normally humans have five digits, the bones of which are termed phalanges, on each hand, although some people have more or fewer than five due to congenital disorders such as polydactyly or oligodactyly, or accidental or intentional amputations.