What's the difference between strum and strumming?
Strum
Definition:
(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.
Strumming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strum
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.