1. (n.)drum a musicalpercussioninstrument consisting of a hollow, usu. cylindrical body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks to produce a booming, tapping, or hollowsound.
9. (verb)cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone study intensively, as before an exam "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
1. (noun)Drum 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
3. (noun)Drum 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
4. (noun)Drum a small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed
5. (noun)Drum the tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane
6. (noun)Drum 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
7. (noun)Drum 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
8. (noun)Drum see Drumfish
9. (noun)Drum a noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout
10. (noun)Drum a tea party; a kettledrum
11. (verb)Drum to beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum
12. (verb)Drum 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
13. (verb)Drum to throb, as the heart
14. (verb)Drum to go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for
15. (verb)Drum to execute on a drum, as a tune
16. (verb)Drum (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc
17. (verb)Drum (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
Definitions of 'Drum'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. Drum Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media
that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under some versions of
BSD Unix the diskpartition used for swapping is still called
/dev/drum; this has led to considerable humor and not
a few straight-faced but utterly bogus ‘explanations’ getting
foisted on newbies. See also “Story of Mel">The Story of Mel'” in Appendix
A.
Definitions of Drum 
Afrikaans: drom, trom
Arabic: طَبل
Bulgarian: барабан
Brazilian: tambor
Czech: buben
German: die Trommel
Danish: tromme
Greek: τύμπανο
Spanish: tambor
Estonian: trumm
Farsi: طبل
Finnish: rumpu
French: tambour
Hebrew: תֹּף
Hindi: ढोल
Croatian: bubanj
Hungarian: dob
Indonesian: genderang
Icelandic: tromma, trumba
Italian: tamburo
Japanese: ドラム
Korean: 북
Lithuanian: būgnas
Latvian: bungas
Malay: dram
Dutch: trom
Norwegian: tromme
Polish: bęben
Persian: طبله
Pashto: طبله
Portuguese: tambor
Romanian: tobă
Russian: барабан
Slovak: bubon
Slovenian: boben
Serbian: bubnjevi
Swedish: trumma
Thai: กลอง
Turkish: davul, trampet
Taiwanese: 鼓
Ukrainian: барабан
Urdu: کھال وغیرہ منڈھ کر تیار ک
Vietnamese: cái trống
Chinese: 鼓
