| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make request, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | accost, address, advise, appeal to, apply to, beseech, confer, consult, entreat, feel, feel one out, give a play, give a tumble, greet, implore, make advance, make overture, make up to, plead, propose, sound out, speak to, supplicate, take aside, talk to, thumb, tumble |
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, stroke |
| Synonyms: | apperceive, caress, clasp, clutch, explore, finger, fondle, frisk, fumble, grapple, grasp, grip, grope, handle, manipulate, maul, palm, palpate, paw, perceive, pinch, ply, poke, press, run hands over, sense, squeeze, test, thumb, tickle, try, twiddle, wield |
| Main Entry: | finger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appendage of hand |
| Synonyms: | antenna, claw, digit, extremity, feeler, hook*, pinky, pointer, ring finger, tactile member, tentacle, thumb |
| Main Entry: | finger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch lightly |
| Synonyms: | feel, fiddle, grope, handle, manipulate, maul, meddle, palpate, paw, play with, thumb, toy with |
| Antonyms: | manhandle |
| Main Entry: | handle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch |
| Synonyms: | check, examine, feel, finger*, fondle, grasp, hold, manipulate, maul, palpate, paw, pick up, poke, test, thumb, try |
| Main Entry: | leaf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flip through |
| Synonyms: | browse, dip into, glance, riff, riffle, run through, scan, skim, thumb |
| Notes: | a page is one side of a piece of paper; a leaf is the term for a piece of paper with two sides |
| Main Entry: | manipulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maneuver, handle physically |
| Synonyms: | employ, feel, finger*, form, manage, mold, operate, ply, shape, swing, thumb, use, wield, work |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make physical contact |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, be in contact, border, brush, butt on, caress, come together, communicate, contact, converge, dab, examine, feel, feel up, finger, fondle, frisk, glance, graze, grope, handle, hit, impinge upon, inspect, join, kiss, lay a finger on, lick, line, manipulate, march, massage, meet, neighbor, osculate, palm, palpate, partake, pat, paw, percuss, pet, probe, push, reach, rub, scrutinize, sip, smooth, strike, stroke, suck, sweep, tag, tap, taste, thumb, tickle, tip, toy, verge |
| Antonyms: | cower, shrink, shy away |
| Main Entry: | hitchhike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a lift |
| Synonyms: | bum a ride, hitch, thumb |