Synonyms of the word

thrum

• n. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Also fig.
• v. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
• v. To make a monotonous drumming noise.
• n. the ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
• n. (chiefly in plural) a fringe made of such threads.
• n. any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
• n. (botany) a threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
• n. (botany) a tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
• n. (anatomy) a bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
• n. (nautical, chiefly in plural) small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
• n. (nautical) a mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
• n. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
• v. to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
• v. (nautical) to insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

drum

• n. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming…
• n. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
• n. In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
• n. (obsolete or historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
• n. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
• n. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
• n. A drumfish.
• n. (slang, Britain) A person's home.
• n. (Australia slang) A tip, a piece of information.
• v. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
• v. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
• v. To throb, as the heart.
• v. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used…

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hum

• n. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
• n. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
• n. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
• n. (Britain, slang) unpleasant odour.
• n. (dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
• n. A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips…
• v. (transitive) To express by humming.
• v. (intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
• v. (intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive.
• v. (intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously.
• v. (Britain) To reek, smell bad.
• v. (Britain) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
• v. (transitive, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
• interj. hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

strum

• v. To play a guitar or other stringed instrument using various strings simultaneously.
• n. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
• n. The act of strumming.