fingertip

Related to fingertip: fingertip grip

at (one's) fingertips

1. Physically within one's reach or in one's hand. I always keep a glass of water at my fingertips when I sleep, because I hate waking up thirsty.
2. Easily or conveniently accessed, accomplished, or achieved. With our new 24-hour phone service, you have quality customer care at your fingertips. Because the Internet is so easy to access these days, we have every resource imaginable at our fingertips!
See also: fingertip

at the end of (one's) fingertips

1. Physically within one's reach or in one's hand. I know many people enjoy reading on a mobile device, but I still prefer a real book. I love the feeling of paper at the end of my fingertips. I always keep a glass of water at the end of my fingertips when I sleep, because I hate waking up thirsty.
2. Easily or conveniently accessed, accomplished, or achieved. With our new 24-hour phone service, you have quality customer care at the end of your fingertips. Because the Internet is so easy to access these days, we have every resource imaginable at the end of our fingertips!
See also: end, fingertip, of

be a (something) to (one's) fingertips

To be a particular thing to the utmost degree. Oh, I'm a student to my fingertips—that's why I'm now pursuing a doctorate.
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be hanging on by (one's) fingertips

1. Literally, to be grasping something, such as a cliff, with one's fingertips to avoid falling. The stranded hiker was hanging on by her fingertips until the rescue crew arrived.
2. By extension, to be narrowly avoiding problems, failure, or catastrophe. They're hanging on by their fingertips out there—the other team's offensive is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm hanging on by my fingertips every day.
See also: by, fingertip, hanging, on

by (one's) fingertips

1. Literally, of a grasp, using only the tips of one's fingers (such as when hanging on the edge of a cliff). The stranded hiker was clinging on by her fingertips until the rescue crew arrived.
2. In a way that is narrowly avoiding problems or failure. They're clinging on by their fingertips out there—the other team's offense is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm hanging on by my fingertips every day.
See also: by, fingertip

cling on by (one's) fingertips

1. Literally, to grasp something, such as a cliff, with one's fingertips to avoid falling. The stranded hiker was clinging on by her fingertips until the rescue crew arrived.
2. By extension, to narrowly avoid problems or failure. They're clinging on by their fingertips out there—the other team's offensive is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm clinging on by my fingertips every day.
See also: by, cling, fingertip, on

fingertip search

A particularly careful and thorough search of a crime scene for evidence. Primarily heard in UK. Ma'am, I know you're eager to find the perpetrator. Don't worry, I have my best men conducting a fingertip search right now. The officers' fingertip search yielded more evidence than we expected.
See also: fingertip, search

hang on by (one's) fingertips

1. Literally, to grasp something, such as a cliff, with one's fingertips to avoid falling. The stranded hiker was hanging on by her fingertips until the rescue crew arrived.
2. By extension, to narrowly avoid problems or failure. They're hanging on by their fingertips out there—the other team's offensive is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm hanging on by my fingertips every day.
See also: by, fingertip, hang, on

have (something) at (one's) fingertips

1. To have something physically within one's reach or in one's hand. I always have a glass of water at my fingertips when I sleep, because I hate waking up thirsty.
2. To be able to easily or conveniently access, accomplish, or achieve something. With our new 24-hour phone service, you have quality customer care at your fingertips. Because the Internet is so easy to access these days, we have every resource imaginable at our fingertips!
See also: fingertip, have

to your fingertips

Through and through; thoroughly; in every manner or respect. Oh, I'm a student to my fingertips—that's why I'm now pursuing a doctorate. Though he grew up in America, Henry is still a Brit to his fingertips.
See also: fingertip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

have something at one's fingertips

 and have something at hand
Fig. to have something within (one's) easy reach. (Have can be replaced with keep.) I have a dictionary at my fingertips. I try to have everything I need at hand.
See also: fingertip, have
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

at one's fingertips

Ready at hand, immediately available. This idiom is used both literally, as in This new dashboard design keeps all the important controls at the driver's fingertips, and figuratively, as in Tom was so familiar with the proposal that he had all the details at his fingertips. [Second half of 1800s]
See also: fingertip
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

at your fingertips

COMMON
1. If you have something at your fingertips, it is easily available for you to use or reach. All basic controls are at your fingertips for straightforward, no fuss operation.
2. If you have facts or information at your fingertips, you know them thoroughly and can refer to them quickly. She has figures about the performance of her business at her fingertips. I need to have all the answers at my fingertips in case I'm questioned about the matter.
See also: fingertip

be hanging on by your fingertips

or

be hanging on by your fingernails

If you are hanging on by your fingertips or hanging on by your fingernails, you are only just managing to survive or to stay in the position you want. There are firms already hanging on by their fingertips who will not be able to take these extra costs. Real Madrid's poor start to the season has left coach Benito Floro hanging on to his job by his fingernails. Note: The verb cling is sometimes used instead of hang. The minister is said to be clinging on by his fingernails since the scandal. Note: You can also say that someone has a fingertip hold on something. A Bolton own goal early in the second half gave Liverpool the fingertip hold they needed to retain their grasp of the FA Cup.
See also: by, fingertip, hanging, on
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

at your fingertips

(especially of information) readily available.
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by your fingertips

only with difficulty; barely.
1990 Current History In early 1988 , United States Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said that General Noriega was clinging to power ‘by his fingertips’.
See also: by, fingertip

to your fingertips

totally; completely.
1991 Sun McMahon, a professional to his fingertips, gave it his best shot even though an injury at this delicate stage could have sabotaged the last big move of his career.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

have something at your ˈfingertips

be so familiar with a subject that you can produce any facts about it easily and quickly: The director was well prepared for the interview. She had all the facts at her fingertips.
See also: fingertip, have, something

to your ˈfingertips

(British English) (of a particular type of person) completely; in every way: He is an artist to his fingertips. She’s a professional to her fingertips.
See also: fingertip
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

at (one's) fingertips

Readily or instantly available.
See also: fingertip
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

at one's fingertips

Ready, instantly available; at one’s command. The term refers to both cognizance and competence—that is, it can mean either knowledge or the ability to carry out a task. Presumably it is based on something being as close at hand and familiar as one’s own fingers. Its roots may lie in an ancient Roman proverb, “To know as well as one’s fingers and toes,” which in English became one’s fingers’ ends (in the proverb collections of John Heywood, John Ray, and others). Fingertips appears to have originated in the United States in the nineteenth century.
See also: fingertip
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • at (one's) fingertips
  • at fingertips
  • at one's fingertips
  • at your fingertips
  • at the end of (one's) fingertips
  • at doorstep
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at (one's) expense
  • at somebody's expense
  • at someone's expense
References in periodicals archive
In spite of several defined flaps for soft-tissue reconstruction in fingertip amputations, there is no commonly applied technique for nail reconstruction except surgeries with nail bed obtained from the amputated part and nail bed grafts provided from other fingers.
A New Technique in Fingertip Defects Including Nail Lost: Reverse Dorsal Fascial Flap with Skin Graft
[1] The flap can be elevated from the area close to the fingertip defect and has a reliable circulation.
Complicated Fingertip Defects: Clinical Approach to their Reconstruction and the Flaps that can be used in Emergency Settings
It is necessary to select an appropriate k value so that the position of each fingertip can be precisely detected.
Kinect Sensor-Based Long-Distance Hand Gesture Recognition and Fingertip Detection with Depth Information
During followup period, history was taken about injury to operated area with normal stress, observation and clinical examination like sensation of operated fingertip, pinching action of fingers, contour of tip of finger and stiffness of fingers of operated hand.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CROSS-FINGER FLAP VERSUS SPLIT-THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT FOR RESURFACING OF SOFT TISSUE LOSS IN FINGERTIP INJURY
The use of semipermeable dressings in fingertip injuries.
IV 3000 dressing for fingertip injury: management and discussion
In the traditional method, blood samples for self-monitoring are taken from the fingertip of any finger using a lancing device with a semi-rigid prick (Figs.
Comparing the use of traditional sites and alternative sites puncture for determination of blood glucose by glucometer
The Reporter contacted the hospital to determine if they were able to reattach the fingertip but were unable to find out before press time.
LaSalle Waterfront Park bringing residents together but that doesn't mean we should bite each other's fingertips off
He was taken to Rashid Hospital, but doctors said the fingertip was already dead by the time police found it.
Man has fingertip bitten off by roommate in fight over glass of water
Methods: A study was undertaken retrospectively on 200 children who had presented with fingertip injuries to the Paediatric Emergency Department of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, during the years 2010-2011.
Fingertip injuries in paediatric patients - experiences at an emergency centre in Saudi Arabia
Israel-based eyeSight Technologies have come up with a fingertip tracking technology that does not require you to actually touch your screens.
Gesture-tech firm eyeSight allows you to control your TV with finger gestures
"FingerTip Island: The Vincenzo Adventure" is a fantasy adventure chapter book about an imaginative 11 year old boy named Rudoph Vincenzo, and his fantasy escape, FingerTip Island.
FingerTip Island
Especially, we are focusing on a vision-based approach for a real time fingertip tracking in the hand coordinate system and hand gesture recognition of another hand as a hand mouse on desk top environments.
Dynamic manipulation of a virtual object in marker-less AR system based on both human hands
They incorporate a spring-loaded lancet that punctures the skin with minimal discomfort--most people take the sample from their fingertip, but some meters provide for other less-sensitive sites, such as the palm and the thigh.
Choosing a home glucose meter