Also found in: Thumbprint cookies, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. A print made by the thumb, especially by the pad of the thumb.

Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. She was thumbing through the dictionary. She hung the picture on the wall with thumbtacks.

She is completely under her husband’s thumb. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster’s page for free fun content. Please log in or register to use Flashcards and Bookmarks. Tom held out the piece of glass to Wilson. Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago is being exhibited in Cardiff. Leadership theory, which filters through everything we teach to thousands of students in the Caribbean and the Middle East.

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These characteristics — which make brain signatures akin to a thumbprint — are the same qualities that enable researchers to study the fingerprint for biological signs of mental health disorders. Lucy Tu, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. Ultimately, several privacy-conscious Republican lawmakers forced you to back off and return to the thumbprint. Aerial photos of Mecklenburg County going back to the 1990s show rows of evergreen trees that wind across both of the old Moseley plots like the whorls and arches of a thumbprint. Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. Dot the print-out template with thumbprint leaves, then start mapping extended relatives galore.

Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘thumbprint. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Subscribe to America’s largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Get Word of the Day daily email!

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