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Reverberate vs Thrum - What's the difference?

reverberate | thrum |

As verbs the difference between reverberate and thrum

is that reverberate is to ring with many echos while thrum is to cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking or thrum can be to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.

As an adjective reverberate

is reverberant.

As a noun thrum is

a thrumming sound; a hum or vibration also fig or thrum can be the ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.

reverberate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • to ring with many echos
  • to have a lasting effect
  • * '>citation
  • to repeatedly return
  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
    • Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  • To fuse by reverberated heat.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • reverberated into glass
  • to rebound or recoil
  • to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
  • (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

    • References

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    Related terms

    * reverberation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • reverberant
  • * Shakespeare
    • the reverberate hills
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected.
    • (Drayton)
    ----

    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