What's the difference between throb and thump?

Throb


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.
  • (n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first case was a 51-year-old woman who suffered from a sudden attack of throbbing headache in the parieto-temporal region, accompanied by nausea, after 20 minutes of swimming practice in a pool.
  • (2) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
  • (3) (When you flick the switch, the bulb's light "throbs" and when it reaches the brightness you require, you flick the switch again to set it.)
  • (4) Members of its armed wing, in black masks and toting large guns, took control of Gaza streets as the deep throb of resistance songs blasted from speakers.
  • (5) Politics throbbed through every line of the speech.
  • (6) The idea the government can push people from their homes with no discussion seems normal in Lagos Robert Neuwirth Close-up, though, it throbs with the kind of energy that marks Lagos out and has made it a darling of urban theorists.
  • (7) Long before kick-off the locals broke out fireworks, flags and throbbing chants to generate the atmosphere that convinces Bosnia to stage critical matches in a dinky 12,000-seat stadium in the city of Zenica, far from the capital, Sarajevo.
  • (8) Atypical facial pain was first described by Temple Fay in 1927 as a vascular syndrome of dull, throbbing pain situated deep in the eye and malar region often referred toward the ear, lateral neck, and shoulders.
  • (9) He came round after a few seconds with a throbbing headache but advanced into a firing position on open ground to protect an evacuation helicopter.
  • (10) Histamine given intravenously to asthmatic patients produces less of a bronchial response than when given by aerosol, even though the intravenous route produces many more systemic symptoms, such as flushing and throbbing headache.
  • (11) I don't drive, I have no interest in cars, I've never had the fantasy of nailing a nurse on the hood of my Buick or of being picked up by a bare-boobed biker chick riding a throbbing Harley.
  • (12) At night the towers turn red, hectic, throbbing with a demonic glow that takes my breath away.
  • (13) We have explored the underlying mechanism of this effect by comparing h alpha CGRP infused so as to maintain heart rate 25-30% above baseline with glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in a dose sufficient to maintain a throbbing headache.
  • (14) Isn't it strange, then, that he has become a heart-throb and that women… He stops me before I'm finished.
  • (15) Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance.
  • (16) I've seen teenage girls doggedly following rock bands, or pop stars, or heart-throb actors around, but I've never come across teenage girls following a model around before.
  • (17) Half of the patients described their headache as a steady ache but throbbing pain was reported in about one third.
  • (18) For a week each year at Carnival, they embody exuberance with a pulsating parade of spectacular floats, gyrating dancers and bateria throbbing with the rhythms of tamborims , chocalhos , surdos and drums.
  • (19) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
  • (20) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.

Thump


Definition:

  • (n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
  • (n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
  • (v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
  • (v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
  • (2) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (3) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
  • (4) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (5) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
  • (6) John Terry’s opener had been thumped in early, Cesc Fàbregas’s corner veering into the penalty area for the centre-half to rise too easily above Rickie Lambert and plant a header down and beyond Simon Mignolet and Steven Gerrard on the goal-line.
  • (7) Italy 1-1 England | Friendly international match report Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward, who was described as a “game-changer” by Roy Hodgson after his cameo here, was summoned from the bench in the second half and thumped in his side’s equaliser from distance 11 minutes from time.
  • (8) Accused by Trump of lacking energy, he has taken to thumping a fist into his hand for emphasis.
  • (9) In a fortnight we will hear how much rail fares will be going up in 2015 – and long-suffering commuters can expect to be thumped again.
  • (10) One plan for dealing effectively with this emergency consists of seven steps of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: (1) establishing the diagnosis and deciding whether to resuscitate; (2) administering a precordial thump, noting the time and summoning aid; (3) establishing a patent airway and performing artificial ventilation and external cardiac compression; (4) instituting general supportive measures; (5) diagnosing the cardiac arrhythmia responsible for the arrest; (6) treating the arrhythmia; and (7) managing the patient after resuscitation.
  • (11) The potential benefit of the precordial thump and cough versions greatly outweighs their risks; hence these manoeuvres should probably be reintroduced into schedules for first aid resuscitation.
  • (12) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (13) A day that started with Wales climbing above England in the Fifa rankings for the first time ended in glorious fashion as Gareth Bale’s thumping header eight minutes from time put Chris Coleman and his players firmly on the road to France.
  • (14) For Stoke, it was a second 4-0 defeat in six days, after Monday’s home thumping by Tottenham Hotspur , and a third game in a row in which they have conceded four.
  • (15) This has been a fantastic experience.” This marked Scotland’s biggest away win since an 8-2 thumping of Northern Ireland in 1949.
  • (16) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
  • (17) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
  • (18) The septally lesioned rabbits exhibited increases in fear reactions such as thumping, escape responses and vocalization when caught, rather than increased aggressiveness.
  • (19) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
  • (20) After an hour, Rob Kiernan thumped the ball across the six-yard box and Marc-Antoine Fortuné stabbed his shot over the bar.