Meaning of Thrum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
2. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
3. A threepenny bit.
   obsolete, slang
4. A spicy taste; a tang.
   figuratively
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.

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Examples

“This doesn’t detract from the fun of bargaining at the variety of Hong Kong’s night markets (those who don’t like to haggle should stay away) that often thrum with shoppers till midnight. The best in town are the Ladies’ Market, for inexpensive women’s clothing, bags, and accessories, and the Temple Street Night Market, for an astonishing selection of everything from clothes and CDs to luggage and shoes—even fortune tellers—at the Yau Ma Tei end of the street.”

“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.”

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