thrum
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology 1
Imitative.
Noun
thrum (plural thrums)
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
- 1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, Chapter 2:
- Pungent sweat and heatedly trodden grass, fumes of tea and porter, thrum of hooves from the paddock, the strikings-up and dyings-down of the band all fused into an extreme for Antonia, whose own senses, boatful, stood up to it.
- 1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, Chapter 2:
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition)[1], page 100:
- The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
Verb
thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- to thrum on a table
Translations
to cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking
to make a monotonous drumming noise
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Etymology 2
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm and Old Norse thrǫmr (“edge, brim”).
Alternative forms
Noun
thrum (plural thrums)
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (chiefly in plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (nautical, chiefly in plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Translations
a fringe of threads
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short piece of yarn
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Adjective
thrum (not comparable)
- Made of or woven from thrum.
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, "The Husband: Paris"
- In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him.
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, "The Husband: Paris"
Verb
thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
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- are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?
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- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
- to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface
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