(v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a simple line-up of strummed guitar, bass and drums, he drawled, and then sang, his way through a story about a train driver fooling the inspector on a toll gate outside New Orleans.
(2) To most teenage girls, Theresa May standing on the steps of No 10 doesn’t mean much to you, but Bieber asking “what better way to fight evil than with love?” before strumming his way into a heartfelt acoustic set will.
(3) "As long as there's one strum of a guitar somewhere, you're all right."
(4) "Each time I see a close-up of Victorino, I think that he has got the funkiest beard that I have seen in this World Cup (Rigobert Song's blonde dreads and beard were a bit too 'Neptune' - Copyright 'Lawro' - for me)," strums Khalid Majid.
(5) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(6) Inside the museum's hall, lined with giant totem poles, mounties genially posed for photographs with the new citizens while the Canadian air force's string quartet gently strummed the theme from Desert Island Discs like a palm court orchestra – a strange choice as desert islands are one thing Canada lacks.
(7) The interplay between Grant's thumping bass, Perkins's jittery lead guitar and Cash's choked strumming was, in its way, as revolutionary as anything Elvis Presley (Obituary, August 17 1977) or Carl Perkins (Obituary, January 20 1998) would accomplish with Sun.
(8) "This is a very historic day," he has just told his congregation, speaking into a microphone as a three-piece band strums gently in the background.
(9) Many city tours are either generic, big-group walks – in which you are fed dry facts with no particular theme – or super-cheesy, “we’re-not-like-the-other-tours” experiences, where you are guided by someone wearing a trilby and strumming a ukelele while telling tales of local cult legends.
(10) In the film, one docker strums the song Joe Hill on his guitar, while another explains that Hill’s famous line was delivered when he was facing the firing squad after being framed for murder.
(11) Bill (now played by Ciarán Hinds) is just out of jail and keen to make peace with his estranged family, while Joy (Shirley Henderson) is still strumming her guitar and lamenting her troubles with men.
(12) Balladeers who have strummed righteously to songs of solidarity and working-class unity become cheerleaders for the destruction of these very values.
(13) And Jean Genie was from Jean Genet – I was strumming this John Lee Hooker riff on a bus and David said, "Pass the guitar over here", reworked the riff and wrote Jean Genie just like that.
(14) A lot of those bands didn't exist properly, of course – they just got together and strummed and banged and hooted – it was off the wall!
(15) Those intimate, murmured lyrics, the sleepy strums, tricks that work so well on record – they're not best suited to open fields, wind-whipped marquees, audiences that don't always fully invest.
(16) This is strumming on Francis' novelty territory, I fear musical instruments at dawn.
(17) And Country Joe McDonald duly strums the opening chords to the most celebrated anthem to come out the San Francisco Summer of Love four decades ago, broadcast to the world from the stage at Woodstock two years later.
(18) The shtick: Nerdy but perky Canadian comic DeAnne Smith talks lesbianism and intelligent design, strums a uke and compulsively deconstructs her own act.
(19) The localization of endogenous peroxidase was studied in human parotid and submandibular glands using the medium of Strum & Karnovsky either at pH 7 or at pH 8.3, after a short fixation of the tissues with a low concentration of glutaraldehyde.
(20) And yet, later that day, we find him sitting in the park outside, strumming a guitar with his sister.
Struma
Definition:
(n.) Scrofula.
(n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Teratomas, which consist only or predominantly of thyroid tissue, are termed struma ovarii.
(2) Cells obtained from non-malignified tissues (diffuse struma) in 83 of 100 cases formed a continuous layer consisting of monomorphous epithelioid cells possessing a high adhesive capacity.
(3) Disorders of cellular immune reactions, struma and hepatosis were absent.
(4) Responsible for the development of paralysis was, in eight cases, the unphysiologic positioning of the arm during anesthesia and, as an additional straining moment, either the pressing down of the shoulders for Trendelenburg's position of the retroflection of the head in operations for struma.
(5) Treatment with prednisolone improved muscle weakness, urinary difficulties and struma.
(6) Surgical treatment was applied to 18 patients for intrathoracic struma.
(7) The risk of thyroidectomy on all patients with uncomplicated struma lymphomatosa would greatly outweigh the benefits of preventing carcinoma.
(8) Diagnosis of struma ovarii was made by radioiodine profile scanning and an ovarian tumour was removed.
(9) A case of a malignant struma ovarii is presented and results of therapy discussed.
(10) Physical findings were unremarkable other than grade III diffuse struma.
(11) Of 1294 patients examined with struma of magnitude I to III, complications in the form of mechanical effects on the neighboring organs, disturbances of thyroid function and pathological anatomical changes in the struma were demonstrated in 1051 cases.
(12) The rich content of the results and the sufficient period of time give grounds to calculate and draw the direction and rate of the tendency in the nitrate content changes, for this period, for the separate rivers--favourable for Struma, Iskŭr and Danube; with no changes for Ogosta and Yantra; pessimistic for Tundzha.
(13) Discordant results (increased serum hormone levels and a low RAI) are found either in the usual forms of hyperthyroidism when large quantities of iodide are ingested, or in atypical forms of hyperthyroidism, including spontaneously resolving hyperthyroidism of subacute thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis factitia, toxic struma ovarii, and functioning metastatic thyroid cancer.
(14) Concerning cervicoendothoracic borderline cases, the same point of view is advocated, e.g., struma endothoracica falsa and vera alliata.
(15) Postoperative histological evidence was available of all patients (carcinomas [n = 31], follicular and oncocytic adenomas [n = 235], nodular hyperplasia, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Riedel's struma and de Quervain's thyroiditis [n = 134]).
(16) In a female patient aged 43 years severe hypothyroidism was caused by Hashimoto struma.
(17) Sonographic and radioisotope investigations were carried out in 92 patients with nodular goitre (colloidal struma, adenoma, cyst, thyroiditis and carcinoma).
(18) By means of anamnestic and clinical examinations carried out on 1,055 test persons of all age groups in four adjacent communities of the County of Suhl an average frequency of struma of 53.9% was stated.
(19) This had the pathological features of struma ovarii and autoradiographic evidence of pre-operatively administered 125I was seen in the lesion.
(20) An oophorectomy specimen in a patient aged 36 showed a dermoid cyst with a struma ovarii and what was considered to be a folliculo-trabecular adenoma.