four fingers

Most of hand

Four fingers is a hand gesture or measurement indicating the width of four fingers held together.

As a rough unit, it measures small distances: The water was about four fingers deep.

In bartending, four fingers describes a generous pour of liquor in a glass—the depth reaching four finger-widths up the side.

Related
  • gestureCommunicative body movement
  • tetradGroup of four units
  • thumbShort opposable digit
  • pinkyHand's smallest digit
  • digitSingle numeric character

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Categories
Opposites
quantity of fingers

four fingersone finger

two fingers · neat

hand completeness

four fingersfull hand

Maximum capacity held

fist · open palm

hand gestures

four fingersclenched fist

Tightly closed hand

thumbs up · open palm

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G