Definition of Fist

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Definition of Fist

Fist

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

The talons of a bird of prey.

the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.

To strike with the fist.

To gripe with the fist.

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Fist Quotations

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
James Cash Penney

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
Thomas Friedman

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.
Hillary Clinton

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Liam Neeson

Fist Translations

fist in Afrikaans is vuis
fist in Dutch is vuist, knuist
fist in French is poing
fist in German is Faust
fist in Italian is pugno
fist in Norwegian is knyttneve, neve
fist in Portuguese is punho

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