What does fist mean?
Fist means A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward..
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/fɪst/ · noun
A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward..
The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.
City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.
With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.
He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
Use fist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fist means A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward..
Common synonyms include nief, bunch of fives, fist-size, ductus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
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