Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Music To play (a stringed instrument) idly or monotonously.
- intransitive verb To speak, repeat, or recite in a monotonous tone of voice; drone.
- intransitive verb Music To strum idly on a stringed instrument.
- intransitive verb To speak in a monotonous tone of voice; drone.
- noun A thrumming sound.
- noun The fringe of warp threads left on a loom after the cloth has been cut off.
- noun One of these threads.
- noun A loose end, fringe, or tuft of thread or wool.
- transitive verb To cover or trim with thrums; fringe.
- transitive verb To knit thrums into (mittens, hats, or socks).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being thrumeyed.
- To make of or cover with thrums, or appendages resembling thrums.
- To thatch.
- noun A monotonous sound, as from the careless or unskilful fingering of a guitar or harp.
- noun A troop.
- noun A heap.
- To play with the fingers on a stringed instrument in an idle, listless, monotonous, or unskilful manner; strum.
- To drum or tap idly on something with the fingers.
- To play idly or unskilfully on (some stringed instrument) with the fingers; sound by fingering in a listless or monotonous manner.
- To drum or tap idly on.
- noun The fringe of threads which remains attached to a loom when the web has been cut off; also, one of such threads.
- noun Hence Any loose thread, or a mass or tuft of loose filamentous material.
- noun A tuft, or a collection of tufts; a fringe or tassel.
- noun pl. Naut., short bits of rope-yarn used for sewing on mats.
- noun plural Coarse yarn; waste yarn.
- noun A ragged rocky headland swept by the sea. Also
thrum-cap . - Made of thrums, or waste yarn: as, a thrum cap or hat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
- noun Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
- noun (Bot.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- noun (Mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- noun (Naut.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- noun a knitted cap.
- noun a hat made of coarse woolen cloth.
- intransitive verb To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
- intransitive verb Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise.
- transitive verb To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
- transitive verb Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to
thrum the table. - transitive verb To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thrumming sound - noun The
fringe ofthreads ofwarp left aftercloth has been cut off of aloom - noun Any short piece of
yarn orrope - verb To cause a steady rhythmic
vibration , usually byplucking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thrumming sound
- verb sound with a monotonous hum
- verb sound the strings of (a string instrument)
- verb make a rhythmic sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The thrum is the fringed end of a weaver's web; a thrum hat was made of very coarse tufted woollen cloth.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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- The dominant P, allele codes for "thrum" pollen, the recessive, p allele codes for "pin" pollen, which is much smaller.
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The genotype GgAaPp gives rise to the "thrum" phenotype, which has short styles, long anthers, and thrum pollen.
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- The dominant P, allele codes for "thrum" pollen, the recessive, p allele codes for "pin" pollen, which is much smaller.
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The genotype GgAaPp gives rise to the "thrum" phenotype, which has short styles, long anthers, and thrum pollen.
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"thrum" like appearance of the hair, which is of a somewhat reddish tinge, occasioned no doubt by constant exposure to the sun and weather.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The Samoset rolled and righted on a sea, and in the light breeze her canvas gave forth a hollow thrum.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees.
Chapter 24 2010
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Funk said the constant thrum of traffic wasn't as disruptive as the pounding that woke her family during the ICC's construction over the past three years.
ICC opens to traffic 2011
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A thrum vibrated through the air, the sound so deep it could only be felt, not heard.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
rolig commented on the word thrum
"The post-road itself is now swept into a chasmal by-pass, crossed by high footbridges that lead to new, remote parts of the town. I'd been there at night sometimes with people I'd picked up. The cars thrumming past added a certain desperate glamour to my vertigo."
– Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
September 24, 2007
bilby commented on the word thrum
We learn to trill Italian songs,
And thrum for hours the tortured keys:
We think it pleases you, and we
But live to please.
- Richard Henry Stoddard, 'A Woman's Poem'.
September 17, 2009