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Fringe vs Thrum - What's the difference?

fringe | thrum |

As nouns the difference between fringe and thrum

is that fringe is a decorative border while thrum is a thrumming sound.

As verbs the difference between fringe and thrum

is that fringe is to decorate with fringe while thrum is to cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

As a adjective fringe

is outside the mainstream.

fringe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A decorative border.
    • the fringe of a picture
  • A marginal or peripheral part.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jeremy Taylor)
    • the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.}}
  • Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
  • The periphery of a town or city.
    • He lives in the fringe of London.
  • That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
    • Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
  • * 1915 , ":
    • In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
  • * 1981 , , HERmione , page 155,
    • Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
  • * 2007 , , Sophie's Dilemma , page 16,
    • Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
    “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
  • * 2009 , Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion , page 231,
    • Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
  • (label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
    • interference fringe
  • Non-mainstream theatre.
    • The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
  • (label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.

    • Synonyms

    * (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *

    Derived terms

    * fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringe

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Outside the mainstream.

    • Synonyms

    * nonmainstream

    Verb

    (fring)
  • To decorate with fringe.
  • To serve as a fringe.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.

    Anagrams

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    thrum

    English

    Alternative forms

    * thrumb

    Etymology 1

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Also fig.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

  • To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
    • She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
  • To make a monotonous drumming noise.
    • to thrum on a table

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) and German Trumm.

    Noun

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

    • Verb

  • to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
  • * Quarles
    • are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?
  • (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