Thumb (disambiguation)
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The thumb
is the first digit of the human hand.
Thumb may also refer to:
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Thumb
The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position , the thumb is the lateral-most digit...
is the first digit of the human hand.
Thumb may also refer to:
- A thumb-like metal bar hinged to a backhoe's scoop
- Hop o' My ThumbHop o' My Thumb"Hop-o'-My-Thumb", also known as "Little Thumbling" , is a literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault . At the age of 67, Perrault decided to dedicate himself to his children and published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals , with the subtitle: Tales of Mother Goose...
, a folk tale - Rule of thumbRule of thumbA rule of thumb is a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation. It is an easily learned and easily applied procedure for approximately calculating or recalling some value, or for making some determination...
, an informal rule - Thumbs upThumbs UpA thumbs-up or thumbs-down is a common hand gesture achieved by a closed fist held with the thumb extended upward or downward in approval or disapproval, respectively...
, a gesture
Geography
Canada- The Thumb (mountain)The Thumb (mountain)The Thumb is a mountain in the Five Fingers Group, a group of summits on the divide between Pitt Lake and Coquitlam Lake and north of Widgeon Lake, in British Columbia, Canada....
, a mountain in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia - The Thumb (Omineca)The Thumb (Omineca)The Thumb is a mountain located south of Sitchiada Mountain on the east side of Bear Lake, on the divide between the upper Omineca River and the basin of the Bear River in the Omineca Country of the Central-North Interior of British Columbia, Canada...
, a mountain in the Omineca Country of British Columbia
United States
- The ThumbThe ThumbThe Thumb is a region and a peninsula of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten; thus the Thumb is the area that looks like the thumb of the mitten. The Thumb is generally considered to be in the Mid-Michigan area of the state, located east of Flint/Tri-Cities...
, a region in Michigan - Thumb MountainThumb MountainThumb Mountain is a steep-sided monadnock located in Hancock, New Hampshire approximately east of the city of Keene and north of Mount Monadnock. The mountain shares a common base with Skatutakee Mountain, , to the east...
, in New Hampshire - Thumb LakeThumb LakeThumb Lake, also known as Lake Louise, is a kettle lake located in Hudson Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan. The epithet Thumb Lake derives from the lake's bathymetry. An islet protrudes from the lake's west basin...
, aka Lake Louise in Hudson Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan
Canada-U.S. border
- Devils ThumbDevils ThumbDevils Thumb, or Daalkunaxhkhu shaa in Tlingit, is a mountain in the Stikine Icecap region of the Alaska-British Columbia border, near Petersburg. It is named for its projected thumb-like appearance. Its name in the Tlingit language has the meaning "the Mountain That Never Flooded" and is said to...
, a mountain between Alaska and British Columbia
Other
- The Thumbs (Tasmania)The Thumbs (Tasmania)The Thumbs is a small and jagged island, with three prominent spires and an area of , in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Tasman Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the Tasman Peninsula, and is in the Tasman National Park.-Fauna:Recorded breeding...
, Tasmanian islet, Australia - Thumb Peak (Palawan)Thumb Peak (Palawan)Thumb Peak is a small mountain in central Palawan, Philippines, and is the highest point in the Thumb Range. Like Mount Mantalingahan and Mount Victoria further south, Thumb Peak is part of the Mount Beaufort Ultramafics geological area, a series of ultramafic outcrops of Eocene origin that emerge...
, a small mountain in central Palawan, Philippines
People
- General Tom ThumbGeneral Tom ThumbGeneral Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton , a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.-Early life:...
, the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838–1883), a dwarf who achieved great fame - Peter ThumbPeter ThumbPeter Thumb was an Austrian architect whose family came from the Vorarlberg, the westernmost part of Austria. He is best known for his Rococo architecture, mainly in Southern Germany...
(1681–1767), an Austrian architect whose family came from the Vorarlberg
Entertainment
- The ThumbsThe ThumbsThe Thumbs were a punk rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. They were active from 1995 until approximately 2002. They were known for having an intense touring ethic, having completed nine U.S. tours, and two Japanese tours between 1997 and 2001...
, an American punk rock band - Thumb (band)Thumb (band)Thumb was a German Hardcore/Nu Metal band formed in November 1993 in Gütersloh. According to the band's official website they appear to have ceased in 2005 into various side projects; Steffen has joined H-Blockx, Jens is in Taetowier Studio, Jan-Hendrik is in Hudson, Claus is in Alternative...
, a German rapcore band - Thumbs!Thumbs!Thumbs! is a collective term for the O Entertainment short films created by Steve Oedekerk using "Thumbation" technology, a process which combines live-action thumbs and superimposition of the voice actors' faces...
, a series of film parodies - Thumb BanditsThumb BanditsThumb Bandits was a Brtish video game television series. It aired on Channel 4 in 2001.The programme was presented by Iain Lee and Aleks Krotoski, but only ran for thirteen episodes before being dropped.- External links :*...
, video game TV show - Thumb CandyThumb CandyThumb Candy was a Channel 4 documentary about the history of computer games which was made by Talkback in 2000.It was hosted by Iain Lee who interviewed the people who were involved in creating the first big video games....
, video game TV show - Hitchhiker's Thumb, an American pop rock band
Computing
- Thumb, an instruction encoding and corresponding execution mode for the ARM architecture
- ThumbnailThumbnailThumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words...
, shortened designation used in markup languages and other programming languages- Windows thumbnail cache, a file used in the Windows operating system