(v. t.) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
(n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
(n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
(n.) Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
(n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(2) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
(3) This means the work of the giant but highly disciplined RSS, as well as smaller fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal, can be critical.
(4) We show that over a limited range of high spatial frequencies this noise takes on a striated appearance, with the striations running perpendicular to the true fringe orientation.
(5) One or two young fringe players may go out on loan but that will almost certainly be that.
(6) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(7) They live in the shadows, on the fringes of Australian society.
(8) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
(9) A further parametric investigation of the conductivity effect revealed that conductivity boundaries may significantly modify the MEF due to neuronal currents located within 1 mm of a conductivity boundary, as would be the case for active neurons near an edema, an anoxic fringe such as might occur during stroke, or a ventricle in the human head.
(10) When the highly crystalline core contents are suitably oriented to transmit their Bragg reflections through the objective aperture, regular fringes separated by 2-9.5 A have been visualized.
(11) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
(12) "They're just asymmetric – one goes up more than the other," and she pulls back her fringe to show me.
(13) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(15) The retinal visual acuity of 198 cataractous eyes was tested with interference-fringes and compared with the post-operative visual acuity.
(16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
(17) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
(18) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
(19) The two games on this trip will not have helped a great deal, other than made it harder for some fringe players to force their way into contention.
(20) In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.
Thrum
Definition:
(n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
(n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
(n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
(n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
(n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
(v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
(v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.
(v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
(v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
(v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
(v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few hundred feet away, the hospital's medical wards were slowly thrumming to work.
(2) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
(3) Her selected stories, The Atmospheric Railway , are now available in paperback (Vintage, £9.99) In JMcorrect Barrie's novel Sentimental Tommy , Tommy Sandys, a young Scottish boy living in a London slum, has been brought up on his exiled Scottish mother's tales of her home town, Thrums.
(4) Despite the chill, the east stand was thrumming with energy thrown off by Tólfan (literally, “12”), the Iceland supporters group, 300 of whom had turned up to watch Strákarnir okkar (“Our Boys”) take on the Netherlands in a Euro 2016 qualifier.
(5) For now the wheels are still turning, the production lines thrumming.
(6) Two years later, Lineker left English football to play briefly in Japan, just as the Premier League thrummed into gear.
(7) After their mother's death, Tommy and his little sister, Elspeth, are sent back to Thrums.
(8) The two capitals – Chisinau in Moldova and Tiraspol in Trans-Dniester – couldn't be more different, the former thrumming with traffic and FM radio debate, the latter redolent of a bygone Soviet vision of monolithic order and stability.
(9) For over 18 years the affairs of Karachi, the country's largest city and thrumming economic hub, have been run from a shabby office block more than 4,000 miles away in a suburb of north London.
(10) The city is a thrumming beehive of middleclass lives, all buzzing with secrets and lies.
(11) From the start Trump’s rallies had the air of the tent revival, that same hot thrum of militant exorcism and ecstasy.
(12) The city transformed into a thrumming sea of people who had journeyed from across the Americas to witness, pray and rejoice here, producing a dramatic coda to a visit which took the pontiff closer to the centres of US power and history than any of his predecessors.
(13) London: the city that ate itself Read more The approach used to be exhilarating and comforting at the same time, the electric thrum of reconnection to the national power source combined with the security of home.
(14) He brags endlessly to his friend Shovel (a tough and brutally misused lad) of the beauties and superiority of Thrums.
(15) "Think of the pilgrims … If you close your eyes you can almost hear the thrumming of their hooves …" That, I guess, is the mysterious magic of Powell and Pressburger.
(16) "The world doesn't understand the crisis in Gaza," adds his brother, Wissam, 35, against the headache-inducing thrum of generators that is part of Gaza's soundtrack.
(17) Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist.
(18) Leftwing outlets, in contrast, thrummed with indignation.
(19) Heartbroken, he sobs to Elspeth that he was always boasting to Shovel about Thrums and here he is in Thrums "bouncing" about Shovel.
(20) Keyboards thrum, telephones buzz, everyone is in suits.