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thumb in English:

1. thumb thumb


I hit my thumb with a hammer.
As a rule of thumb, you should plan on one pound of beef for every two guests.
Place your thumb on the scanner.
I've got two thumbs.
Right hand, thumb and forefinger.
After filling your pipe with tobacco, tamp it down with your thumb, but don't pack it too tightly.
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
The rule of thumb
most animals don't have thumbs
Bob held up his thumb to tell us everything was okay.
My thumb on my right hand hurts.
The baby sucks his thumb whenever he gets tired
He found it hard to write because he had broken his thumb.
Humans can pick things up and hold them because they have fingers and thumbs.
She had no rule of thumb about it, but she got it right every time.

2. x x


X rays are used to locate breaks in bones.
The "X" button in the top right shuts the window.
Today's class continues with inequalities. Like yesterday try to display the domains in x and y.
Could I have two tickets to Malcolm X?
This microscope has a 100X magnification.
The symbol "X" usually stands for an unknown quantity in mathematics.
Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X.
The planet Arèmo X3 is almost twice the size of planet Earth, and as you can see on the screen, quite similar to your world.
Although it's "Mac OS X", that doesn't mean that the Mac OS code itself has been upgraded to a new version.
No problem. If X happens, we have Y as a backup.
On Jul 18th Mark/Space released an updated version of Missing Sync for Windows Mobile for the Mac OS X.