thrash
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See also: Thrash
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
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[edit]thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
- To beat mercilessly.
- 1979 November 30, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, in The Wall[1], performed by Pink Floyd:
- But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
- 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:
- The rural Midland & Great Northern backwaters from Norfolk to Leicester closed in February 1959 before they could be used there, and thrashing them on the GN main line instead resulted in a memorably poor ride and rattling windows, caused by vibration from their engines and suspect suspension.
- To defeat utterly.
- 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[2]:
- Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, “The Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, in John Dryden, transl., John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, published 1987, page 364:
- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
- 2023, Britney Spears, The Woman in Me[3], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- As performers, we girls have our hair. That's the real thing guys want to see. They love to see the long hair move. They want you to thrash it.
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to beat mercilessly
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to defeat utterly
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to thresh — see thresh
software: to extensively test a software system
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computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory
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Noun
[edit]thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
- (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
- Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, “Queen of the Black Coast”, in Weird Tales:
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
- 2016, Clark Nida, The Titan Kiss:
- Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.
- (music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]thrash m (uncountable)
- (music) thrash metal, thrash
- Synonym: thrashmetal
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]thrash
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[edit]References
[edit]- Chambers 1908.
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