different between thrash vs threap

English

Etymology

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

1. To beat mercilessly.
2. To defeat utterly.
3. To thresh.
4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
   • c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,

     I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
6. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Derived terms

• thrashel
• thrasher

Translations

Noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)

1. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
   • 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,

     As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
2. (music, uncountable) thrash metal

References

• (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

Anagrams

• Harths, harths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English thrash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
• Hyphenation: thrash

Noun

thrash m (uncountable)

1. (music) thrash metal, thrash

   Synonym: thrashmetal

English

Alternative forms

• threep, threip, threpe, threeap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?p/

Etymology 1

From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below).

Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þr?ap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þr?ap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

Noun

threap (plural threaps) (Scotland)

1. an altercation, quarrel, argument
2. an accusation or serious charge
3. stubborn insistence
4. a superstition or freet

Etymology 2

From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þr?apian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-Germanic *þraup?n? (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þraw? (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjan? (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr?w- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þr?agan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þr?a (“correction, punishment”), þr?wian (“to suffer”). More at throe.

Verb

threap (third-person singular simple present threaps, present participle threaping, simple past and past participle threaped or threapt) (Scotland)

1. (transitive) To contradict
2. To scold; rebuke
3. To cry out; complain; contend
4. To argue; bicker
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, "The Old Cloak", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765

     It's not for a man with a woman to threap.

5. To call; name
6. To cozen or cheat

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7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.

   He threaped me down that it was so.
8. To beat or thrash.

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9. To insist on

Derived terms

• threaper

Anagrams

• Tharpe, hapter, pather, tephra, teraph