Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - strum
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Strum
strum
(strums, strumming, strummed) If you strum a stringed instrument such as a guitar, you play it by moving your fingers backwards and forwards across the strings. In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a guitar... Vaska strummed away on his guitar. VERB: V n, V prep/adv • Strum is also a noun. A little while later, I heard the strum of my father’s guitar as he began to sing. N-SING: oft N of n
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1.
I. noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1764 an act, instance, or sound of ~ming II. verb (~med; ~ming) Date: 1777 transitive verb 1. a. to brush the fingers over the strings of (a musical in~ent) in playing ~ a guitar; also thrum III,1 b. to play (music) on a stringed in~ent ~ a tune 2. to cause to sound vibrantly winds ~med the rigging — H. A. Chippendale intransitive verb 1. to ~ a stringed in~ent 2. to sound vibrantly • ~mer noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v. & n. --v.tr. (strummed, strumming) 1 play on (a stringed or keyboard instrument), esp. carelessly or unskilfully. 2 play (a tune etc.) in this way. --n. the sound made by strumming. Derivatives strummer n. Etymology: imit.: cf. THRUM(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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4.
1. бренчание, треньканье 2. бренчать, тренькать to strum (on) a guitar —- бренчать (тренькать) на гитаре ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
5.
1. noun бренчание, треньканье 2. v. бренчать, тренькать (on); Jane can come home from any musical show and strum every tune on the piano. ...Англо-русский словарь
6.
~ v strummed, strumming to play an instrument such as a guitar by moving your fingers up and down across its strings ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- 1775, possibly imitative of the sound of running the fingers across the strings of a musical instrument. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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