Thrum

Definitions: Thrum

Thrum

Noun

1. A thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo".

Verb

1. Sound with a monotonous hum.

2. Sound the strings of (a guitar or similar string instrument).

3. Make a rhythmic sound: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night".

Date "thrum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Loom waste consisting of warp ends and test fabric pieces. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Thrum

Synonyms: beat (v), drum (v), hum (v), strum (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thrum

English words defined with "thrum": Thread and thrum, Thrum cap, Thrum hat, Thrummed, Thrumming. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Ancient Oahu: Stories from Fornander & Thrum (reference) Thrum (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Thrum [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Thrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Thrum" is used about 11 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
Noun (singular)	72.73%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	27.27%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Expressions using "thrum": Thread and thrum ♦ Thrum cap ♦ Thrum hat ♦ tread and thrum. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thrum": Thrum-eyed.
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.

Language		Translations for "thrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trokitje me gishta, xhufkë (aigrette, crest, plume, pompon, shag, tassel, topknot, toupee, tuft), picikamë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نسالة الخيوط (tow), ‏عزف على نفس الوتيرة, ‏داعب الأوتار. (various references)

Bulgarian		ресна (fringe), барабаня (drum, whang), барабанене (drum, rataplan, rub a dub, whang), потропване с пръсти, пискюл (fringe, pendant, pompom, pompon, tassel, tuft), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, gab, jangle, plunk, rattle, tattle, tinkle), дрънкам на струнен инструмент. (various references)

Czech		ozdobit třásnìmi. (various references)

Danish		garnrest fra vaevning. (various references)

Dutch		weefafval. (various references)

French		tapoter, vrombissement, gratter, filasse, déchet de tissage, étoupe. (various references)

German		Knüpfend (tying). (various references)

Greek		νήμα εισ το άκρον υφάσματοσ, παρυφή (flounce, selvage, welt), παίζω όργανον ατεχνώσ. (various references)

Hungarian		rojt (bobble, bunch, frazzle, fringe, tassel, tuft), szegély (band, bed, border, braid, edge, fringe, hem, lap, ledge, list, Marge, margin, molding, moulding, periphery, seam, Selvedge, styling, verge), pötyögtetés, monoton hang, láncfonál (warp), klimpírozás, fonalhulladék (waste), fonalcsomó, durva fonal, dobolás ujjakkal, besodrás helye láncon. (various references)

Italian		fare le fusa (purr), cascame (discard, offcut, refuse parts, rejects, scrap, sixths, waste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		掻き鳴らす (to strum, to thrum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かきならす (to smooth out, to strum, to thrum). (various references)

Manx		whaig, fooag (tab, tassel). (various references)

Pig Latin		umthray

Portuguese		tocar mal (strum, twang), tamborilar (Bicker, drum, pattern, tattoo), guarnecer com franjas, arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall bladder, grazier, rase, raze, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, sputter, strum, twang). (various references)

Romanian		zdrãngãni (jingle, rattle, strum). (various references)

Russian		тычинка (stamen, stamina), бахрома (frindge, fringe). (various references)

Scottish		fuigheag (a thrum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		resa (aglet, aiglet, catkin, fringe, gosling, tuft), prašnik (anther, stamen), porub (facing, hem, seam, wale, welt). (various references)

Spanish		teclear monótonamente música, rasguear monótonamente música, rasguear las cuerdas de. (various references)

Swedish		knäppa (buckle, button, click, do up, fasten, fillip, flick, flip, knock off, plug, pot, snap, twang, zap). (various references)

Turkish		tıngırdatmak (knock out, make tinkle, strum, ting), saçak yapmak, saçak takmak (fringe), saçak (canopy, chenille, eaves, entablature, falbala, falbelo, fringe, roof tree, tag, water table, whisk), parmaklarıyla trampet çalmak, püskül (beard, coma, fringe, tag, tassel, tuft), acemice çalmak (strum). (various references)

Ukranian		тринькати, тринькання, наспівувати (cantillate, descant), бахрома (fringe, knotting, macrame), прикрашати бахромою (fringe). (various references)

Vietnamese		sợi thô xô bồ, cả tốt lẫn xấu. (various references)

Welsh		tabyrddu (drum). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thrum": thrummed, thrummer, thrummers, thrummier, thrummiest, thrumming, thrummy, thrums. (additional references)
	Words ending with "thrum": pyrethrum. (additional references)
	Words containing "thrum": pyrethrums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athyrium, phrum, Tarum, terum, thaum, thr, thram, thren, thrik, thrim, thrime, throk, throm, thromg, thromp, thrue, thrus, thruw, thruy, thum, thur, thurh, thurm, thurn, thuru, trum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-m-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: hurt, ruth, thru.
	-2 letters: hum, hut, mut, rum, rut.
	-3 letters: hm, mu, uh, um, ut.
	Words containing the letters "h-m-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: thrums.
	+2 letters: chetrum, mouther, murther, thorium, thrummy, thumper, triumph, vermuth.
	+3 letters: bothrium, chetrums, eurythmy, humorist, mirthful, mistruth, mouthers, mouthier, murthers, outcharm, outhomer, outhumor, outmarch, philtrum, thoriums, thrombus, thrummed, thrummer, thumpers, triumphs, vermouth, vermuths, warmouth.
	+4 letters: anthurium, bothriums, eurhythmy, eurythmic, hamstrung, hematuria, hirsutism, humorists, mistruths, mouthpart, murthered, outcharms, outhomers, outhumors, pyrethrum, rheumatic, rheumatiz, rheumiest, ruthenium, smutchier, thrummers, thrummier, thrumming, touchmark, triumphal, triumphed, vermouths, warmouths.
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