Dictionary Entry
thrum
thrum is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses
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- 1noun
One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
- 2noun
Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
- 3noun
A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- 4noun
A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- 5noun
A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- 6transitive verb
To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- 7transitive verb
To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.
- 8intransitive verb
To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
- 9intransitive verb
Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
- 10transitive verb
To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
- 11transitive verb
Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
- 12noun
a thrumming sound
"he could hear the thrum of a banjo"
- 13verb
make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"
"The drums beat all night"
- 14verb
sound the strings of (a string instrument)
"strum a guitar"
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- 15verb
sound with a monotonous hum
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