different between thrumming vs thrum

English

Verb

thrumming

1. present participle of thrum

Noun

thrumming (plural thrummings)

1. The sound or action of something that thrums.
   • 1948, William Makepeace thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 20:

     Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history, the whole day long.

   • 1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal (volume 46, page 231)

     The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be. It had three strings, the thrummings of which disquieted me on two accounts […]

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Noun

thrum (plural thrums)

1. 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.

2. (figuratively) A spicy taste; a tang.

Verb

thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)

1. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

   She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.

2. To make a monotonous drumming noise.

   to thrum on a table

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrum?. Cognate with German Trumm and Old Norse thr?mr (“edge, brim”).

Alternative forms

• thrumb

Noun

thrum (plural thrums)

1. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
2. (chiefly in plural) A fringe made of such threads.
3. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
4. (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
5. (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
6. (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
7. (nautical, chiefly in plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
8. (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
9. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

Translations

Adjective

thrum (not comparable)

1. 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.

Verb

thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)

1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
   • 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for […] afflicted Soules

     are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?

2. (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

Anagrams

• murth