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Definition: Strum |
StrumNoun1. Sound of strumming: "the strum of a guitar". Verb1. Sound the strings of (a guitar or similar string instrument). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Note: Strum \Strum\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Strummed; present participle verb or noun Strumming.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | STRUM. A perriwig. Rum strum: a fine large wig. (CAMBRIDGE) To do a piece. Foeminam subagitare. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Strum, Wisconsin."
Synonym: StrumSynonym: thrum (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Strum |
| English words defined with "strum": Strummed, Strumming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "strum": AEGROTAT. (references) |
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Lyrics | Strum your frustrations away. (The Folk Song Army; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
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| "Strum" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Strum" is used about 15 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 (base form) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 33.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "strum" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Strum | Last name | 1,000 | 14,464 |
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1. Strum, WI (village, FIPS 77825) |
| 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 |
strum ruger | 57 |
strum | 22 |
strum wisconsin | 14 |
strum the guitar | 11 |
pattern strum | 9 |
strum thurman | 8 |
dana strum | 7 |
guitar pattern strum | 7 |
stick strum | 5 |
firearm ruger strum | 5 |
co ruger strum | 4 |
strum thurmond | 4 |
strum yfke | 4 |
ruger.com strum | 3 |
company ruger strum | 3 |
bot strum | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "strum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gërvisht (bark, clank, clapperclaw, claw, graze, jingle, lacerate, Nick, scarify, scrabble, scratch, tear), e rënë me gishta, bie me gishta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مداعبة أوتار الآلة الموسيقية, داعب الأ وتار, داعب أوتار الجيتار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 乱弹. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | brnkat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مضراب زدن , مرتعش کردن , نواختن ساززهی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rimputtaa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tapoter, racler, raclement, gratter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | klimpern (chink, clink, jangle, jingle, thrum, tinkle, to chink, to jingle, to strum, twang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρούω έγχορδον όργανον ατεχνώσ, γρατσούνισμα (scratch, scuffing), γρατσουνίζω (claw, scratch), παρακρούω, παίζω έγχορδον όργανον ατεχνώσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veri a zongorát, kalimpálás (wabble, wobble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strimpellare (bang away, thumb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 爪弾く (to pluck the strings, to strum), 掻き鳴らす (to strum, to thrum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つまびく (to pluck the strings, to strum), かきならす (to smooth out, to strum, to thrum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mairaghey (finger, fingering, strumming, thumb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umstray tocar mal (thrum, twang), tocar descuidadamente, martelar (bang, drum, hammer, hammering, thump), dedilhar mal, arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall, graze, rase, raze, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, sputter, thrum, twang). (various references) zdrãngãnit (jingle), zdrãngãni (jingle, rattle, thrum). (various references) бренчать (clank, plunk, strummed). (various references) drndati (harp on). (various references) rasguear (plunk). (various references) slå på (knock on, switch on), klinka (clench, clinch, latch, thrum, tinkle), klink. (various references) tıngırtı (clink, clinking, jangle, rattle, tang, tinkling, twang), tıngırdatmak (knock out, make tinkle, thrum, ting), kulak tırmalayan ses (rasping), kötü çalmak (plonk), kötü çalma, acemice çalmak (thrum). (various references) tiссirdetmek (click), tiссirdemek (click). (various references) бренькати (twang), бренькання. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strum": struma, strumae, strumas, strummed, strummer, strummers, strumming, strumose, strumous, strumpet, strumpets, strums. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "strum": claustrum, colostrum, diestrum, estrum, lustrum, nostrum, oestrum, plastrum, rostrum, sequestrum, sistrum. (additional references) | |
Words containing "strum": colostrums, diestrums, estrums, instrument, instrumental, instrumentalism, instrumentalisms, instrumentalist, instrumentalists, instrumentalities, instrumentality, instrumentally, instrumentals, instrumentation, instrumentations, instrumented, instrumenting, instruments, lustrums, noninstrumental, nostrums, oestrums, plastrums, rostrums, sequestrums, sistrums. (additional references) | |
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"Strum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sarum, schtumm, shtum, skrum, sorum, steum, straum, strem, strim, strimp, strom, stron, stroum, strtum, stru, struc, strud, strue, struf, strug, strumb, strump, strune, Strunk, strurm, strus, sturm, sturn, trum, Tsuruo, Zdruj. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strum" (pronounced stru"m) |
| 3 | -r u" m | crumb, drum, from, grum, rum. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: must, muts, rums, rust, ruts, smut, stum. | |
-2 letters: mus, mut, rum, rut, sum, uts. | |
-3 letters: mu, um, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: estrum, muster, struma, strums, thrums, truism, trumps, tumors. | |
+2 letters: antrums, atriums, brutism, durmast, estrums, frustum, lustrum, matures, munster, murkest, muskrat, mustard, musters, mustier, mutters, nostrum, oestrum, rectums, rostrum, rummest, scrotum, sistrum, sternum, stratum, strumae, strumas, stumper, sumpter, tamburs, tourism, traumas, trismus, truisms, tumours, unsmart, untrims. | |
+3 letters: altruism, amateurs, brutisms, centrums, chetrums, costumer, crumpets, customer, cutworms, demurest, diestrum, dumpster, durmasts, embrutes, emeritus, fremitus, frustums, futurism, gourmets, grummest, grummets, gumtrees, humorist, imbrutes, imputers, lustrums, maturest, menstrua, misroute, mistrust, mistruth, mistutor, mixtures, moisture, motorbus, moulters, mounters, mouthers, muenster, mugworts, multures, munsters, muralist, muriates, murkiest, murthers, musketry, muskrats, mustards, mustardy, mustered, natriums, naturism, nostrums, oestrums, outsmart, permutes, plastrum, protiums, remounts, resubmit, romaunts, rostrums, rummiest, scrotums, sistrums, smuttier, spectrum, staumrel, sternums, stratums, strummed, strummer, strumose, strumous, strumpet, stumbler, stumpers, stumpier, summitry, sumpters, surmount, tamaraus, tambours, tamburas, tantrums, tempuras, terbiums, terminus, thoriums, thrombus, thumpers, timaraus, timorous, tiramisu, tourisms, triduums, trinkums, tritiums, triumphs, trumpets, tumblers, tumbrels, tumbrils, tummlers, tumorous, turmoils, ultraism, unmiters, unmitres, upstream, vermuths, yttriums. | |
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