thrum
/θɹʌm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
noun
A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
Example Sentences
- "a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum"
- "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, boastful, stood up to it."
- "The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice."
- "She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently."
- "to thrum on a table"
- "They were hardly seated, and I had hardly waved good-by to Denver, before he was off, the big motor thrumming with immense birdlike power."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: thrum, *þrum, *þrumą
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /θɹʌm/
- British English: /θɹʌm/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.