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Drum Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Drum?
[n] small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
[n] a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes [n] a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end [n] a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [n] the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" [n] a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [v] study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [v] play the drums [v] make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" Synonyms | Synonyms for Drum: barrel | beat | bone | bone up | brake drum | cram | drumfish | get up | grind away | membranophone | metal drum | mug up | swot | swot up | thrum | tympan Related Terms | Find terms related to Drum: barrage | barrel | beat | beat a ruffle | beat a tattoo | beat the drum | beat time | beating | bole | bongo drum | cackle | call | canvass | carol | cask | caw | chatter | cheep | chirk | chirp | chirr | chirrup | chitter | chuck | clack | cluck | cock-a-doodle-doo | column | conga | coo | count | count the beats | croak | cronk | crow | cuckoo | cylinder | cylindroid | din | ding | drizzle | drum music | drumbeat | drumfire | drumhead | drumming | drumskin | drumstick | fall | flutter | gabble | gaggle | go pitapat | gobble | guggle | hammer | honk | hoo | hoot | jazz stick | keep time | kettle | kettledrum | membranophone | mizzle | palpitate | palpitation | pant | paradiddle | patter | peep | pelt | pillar | pip | pipe | pitapat | pitter-patter | play drum | pound | pounding | pour | pour with rain | precipitate | pulsate | pulsation | pulse | quack | rain | rain tadpoles | rataplan | rat-a-tat | rat-tat | rat-tat-tat | rattattoo | roll | roller | rouleau | rub-a-dub | ruff | ruffle | scold | shower | shower down | side drum | sing | snare | snare drum | sound a tattoo | spatter | spit | splatter | splutter | sprinkle | sputter | squawk | staccato | stream | tabor | taboret | tabret | tambourine | tam-tam | tap | tat-tat | tattoo | tenor drum | throb | throbbing | thrum | thump | thumping | tick | ticktock | timbrel | timpani | tom-tom | trill | troll-drum | trunk | tube | tweet | twit | twitter | tymp stick | tympan | tympanon | tympanum | war drum | warble | weep | whistle See Also | Bairdiella chrysoura | bass drum | bongo | bongo drum | channel bass | cylinder | cylinder | drum brake | drum brakes | drumhead | Equetus lanceolatus | Equetus pulcher | go | gran casa | head | hit the books | jackknife-fish | mademoiselle | percussion instrument | percussive instrument | play | red drum | redfish | sciaenid | sciaenid fish | Sciaenops ocellatus | side drum | silver perch | snare | snare drum | sound | sound | striped drum | study | tabor | tabour | tambour | tambourine | tenor drum | timbrel | tomtom | vessel Drum In Webster's Dictionary \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel,
Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a
clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a
booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of
imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.]
1. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a
hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a
piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of
a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of
skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking
time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an
orchestra, or cavalry band.
The drums cry bud-a-dub. --Gascoigne.
2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as:
(a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum,
for warming an apartment by means of heat received
from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam,
etc.
(b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are
packed.
(c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but
incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
(d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical,
blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed;
also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal
in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
(e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for
the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of
belts or straps passing around its periphery; also,
the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or
chain is wound.
3. (Zo["o]l.) See {Drumfish}.
4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a
private house; a rout. [Archaic]
Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and
emptiness of the entertainment. --Smollett.
Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and
hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and
uproar, as the significant name of each declares.
5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot.
{Bass drum}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Double drum}. See under {Double}.
\Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drumming}.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. \Drum\, v. t. 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers. |
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