Strum vs Thrum - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between strum and thrum

is that strum is to play a guitar or other stringed instrument using various strings simultaneously while thrum is to cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

As nouns the difference between strum and thrum

is that strum is the sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously while thrum is a thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Also fig.

strum
English

Verb
(strumm)
To play a guitar or other stringed instrument using various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms
* strummer
Noun
(en noun)
The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

The act of strumming.

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.

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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