thrum

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /θɹʌm/    美 /θɹʌm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
    — a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum
  2. A threepenny bit. obsolete,slang
  3. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
    — The twister is given a harness filled with thrums or short ends of the old warp which has been returned from the looms. These thrums of silk are all that remain of the last warps.
  4. A spicy taste; a tang. figuratively
    — 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.
  5. A fringe made of such threads. in-plural
  6. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
  7. A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
  8. A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
  9. A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
  10. Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops. in-plural
  11. A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
  12. A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
动词 v.
  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. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking. transitive
    — She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
  3. To make a monotonous drumming noise. intransitive
    — to thrum on a table
  4. 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
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of or woven from thrum. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

thrums plural thrums present,singular,third-person thrumming participle,present thrummed participle,past thrummed past thrums plural thrumb alternative thrumb alternative thrums present,singular,third-person thrumming participle,present thrummed participle,past thrummed past thrumb alternative thrums plural

词汇关系

衍生词
thrum-eyed thrummy

词源

词源 1
Imitative.
词源 2
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
词源 3
Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/).
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