What's the difference between pinkie and thumb?

Pinkie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eagle has since said that her pinkie wiggle was "commenting on the size of GDP growth".
  • (2) The meningeal irritation was not present, but lumbar puncture showed slightly pinky CSF with normal pressure.
  • (3) By then, of course, Rich and his business partner, Pincus 'Pinky' Green, had long since fled to Zug, and were well on their way to making the money back through a series of sanctions-busting oil shipments to South Africa and other 'pariah' states.
  • (4) In March 2002, a pre-buzzcut Justin Timberlake broke up with a pre-breakdown Britney Spears after a three-year relationship which saw them blossom from perma-smiling Mouseketeers to pin-ups for young love (they used to call each other Stinky and Pinky!).
  • (5) Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather not see high-level female politicians pinkie-wiggling at the prime minister.
  • (6) Years ago I went out to a swanky birthday dinner, with set menu, which included some flat bits of pinky slime.
  • (7) You can imagine Alec Guinness walking in at any minute, or Pinkie from Brighton Rock.
  • (8) The image of that gingery, bony, pinky-whitey person on the cover with the liquid mercury collar bone was – for one particular young moonage daydreamer – the image of planetary kin, of a close imaginary cousin and companion of choice.
  • (9) I see Makka Pakka's sponge and soap, the Tombliboos' piano, the sippy cups from the Pinky Ponk, the Og-Pog.
  • (10) The study’s lead researcher, Prof Pinki Sahota, said: “The results suggested that body shape dissatisfaction and dietary restraint behaviours may begin in children as young as six to seven years old, and there is an association with increased BMI.
  • (11) And they are bonkers, involving a psychedelic cast of Iggle Piggle and Upsy-Daisy and Makka Pakka and the rest, all bobbling around in a surrealist garden, dancing and hugging, hanging out in a magical gazebo and travelling in their flying vessels, the Ninky Nonk and the Pinky Ponk.
  • (12) Twenty minutes after both injections had been given and a Super Pinky pressure device had been placed on the eye, the mean decrease in IOP from the preoperative value was 3.1 mm Hg in group 1 and 4.8 mm Hg in group 2.
  • (13) [It] is hard to believe she could get worse … you can start down at her pinky toe and work your way up to her head and you will find a cut, bruise, graze or broken bone on every part of her body … She has been giving it her all for a week now and the first three days she had no medical care whatsoever.
  • (14) His compositions were daring and dynamic, combining radical foreshortenings and vast areas of "empty" space, Procrustean croppings and dangerous blockings of view, and an enormous variety of materials and techniques, greasy inks and essences – oil diluted with turps – powdery pinky pastels, plain old charcoal on bright green commercial paper or robin-egg blue, and all shapes and sizes, some huge some almost miniatures, some extremely elongated, some almost square.
  • (15) Some people do seem to be worried that their children are going to grow up with a vocabulary of Pinky Ponk and Ninky Nonk and Makka Pakka, and I think that's rather silly.
  • (16) Pinky, a 1949 race drama about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, was another exception, garnering a best supporting nomination for Ethel Waters.
  • (17) I feel like Pinky taking notes from The Brain as he runs through ideas for a huge Boy Better Know record, Eskimo Dances in Dubai and Jamaica, a Roll Deep record label, and even a grime version of Watch The Throne.
  • (18) It was common enough, as late as 1938, for Graham Greene to have his sinister protagonist Pinkie carry a small bottle of acid in Brighton Rock.
  • (19) The effort's wide, but really not far away at all, and it's not clear whether Mannone would have got his pinkies to it were the ball on target.
  • (20) Usually, this happens after the pinkie-wiggler has been intimate with the pinkie-wigglee and their, ahem, coupling ended badly.

Thumb


Definition:

  • (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly.
  • (v. t.) To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
  • (v. t.) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.
  • (v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
  • (2) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
  • (3) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
  • (4) Considering the large number of procedures designed for the thumb trapeziometacarpal (TMC) joint, it is evident that none are completely satisfactory.
  • (5) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
  • (6) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
  • (7) The power users and early adopters of these apps, the ones you're most likely to see tapping their thumbs over a tiny screen, are under 25.
  • (8) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (9) My rule of thumb is that if you see a commentator or politician praising a dictatorship, plutocrat or corporation, the best course is to assume that they have been got at unless they can prove otherwise.
  • (10) These variations could have an influence on proprioception in the thumb ray.
  • (11) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
  • (12) Sixteen patients obtained full, independent thumb-index finger extension, three had fair function, and two obtained thumb-index extension by tenodesis of the transfer.
  • (13) Reversals of field direction showed a shift from lateral inferior to medial superior for thumb to little finger.
  • (14) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
  • (15) Two cases of thumb replantation and one of finger revascularization complicated by Aeromonas hydrophila infection are reported.
  • (16) The palmar digital nerves to the thumb were constant in position and course, with a short lateral cutaneous branch from the radial palmar digital nerve in 30 per cent of cases.
  • (17) Tactile stimuli were applied to the right index fingertip at intervals ranging from 63 to 1,000 msec after the completion of rapid thumb movement.
  • (18) In six patients with defective sensibility of the thumb the transfer of a neurovascular island flap was performed according to Littler's technique.
  • (19) In this discussion we have evaluated in detail the surgical treatment indicated for wrist, metacarpophalangeal joint, and thumb deformities.
  • (20) To the best of our knowledge it is the first reported case of false aneurysm involving the thumb.

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