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Definition: STRUMMING |
STRUMMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Strum |
Date "STRUMMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Crosswords: STRUMMING |
| English words defined with "STRUMMING": guitar. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STRUMMING": strum. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Strumming my six string, on my front porch swing, ("Margaritaville"; performing artist: Jimmy Buffett) To the strumming of guitars, (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Guitar player" by Thomash Commentary: "Close up of a guitar player strumming, from a series taken for a flamenco guitar album." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | A very 1960's style folk guitar strumming pattern. | | Strumming acoustic guitar and percussion playing in a major key area. |
| A harp demonstrating strumming and harmonics techniques in a solo style. | | Guitar chords strumming with lap steel guitar melody in a very kitschy Hawaiian style. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "STRUMMING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.77% of the time. "STRUMMING" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 80.77% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STRUMMING": guitar-strumming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
guitar strumming | 31 |
strumming | 21 |
guitar strumming pattern | 20 |
strumming pattern | 13 |
guitar strumming technique | 5 |
guitar lesson strumming | 3 |
finger his pain strumming | 3 |
pattern song strumming | 2 |
strumming technique | 2 |
pain strumming | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRUMMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | cingëllimë. (various references) | |
German | klimpernd (thrumming). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 爪弾き (black sheep, ostracism). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つまびき. (various references) | |
Manx | mairaghey (finger, fingering, strum, thumb). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ummingstray.(various references) | |
Russian | бренчать бренчание, бренчание (chink, strum). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drndanje. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STRUMMING" (pronounced stru"ming) |
| 5 | -r u" m i ng | drumming. |
| 4 | -u" m i ng | becoming, coming, dumbing, forthcoming, humming, numbing, plumbing, succumbing, summing, thumbing, unbecoming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stumming. | |
-2 letters: musting, rusting, summing, untrims. | |
-3 letters: grunts, muring, musing, muting, mutism, rutins, string, strung, summit, truing, truism, ungirt, unrigs, untrim. | |
-4 letters: girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, grunt, mints, minus, munis, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, runts, rutin, sting, strum, stung, suing, suint, tings, trigs, trims, trugs, tungs, turns, units, unrig, using. | |
-5 letters: gins, girn, girt. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+5 letters: spermatogonium, summersaulting. | |
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