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Definition of 'drum'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) drum
a musical percussion instrument 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 hollow sound.

2.  drum
any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.

3.  drum
the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.

4.  drum
any rumbling or deep booming sound.

5.  drum
a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.

6.  drum
any cylindrical object with flat ends.

7.  drum
a cylindrical part of a machine.

8.  drum
a cylindrical box or receptacle, esp. a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.

9.  drum
any of several cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.

10.  drum
a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.

11. (v.i.) drum
to beat or play a drum.

12.  drum
to beat on anything rhythmically, esp. to tap one's fingers rhythmically on a hard surface.

13.  drum
to make a sound like that of a drum; resound.

14.  drum
(of ruffed grouse and other birds) to produce a sound resembling drumming.

15. (v.t.) drum
to beat (a drum) rhythmically; perform by beating a drum.

16.  drum
to call or summon by or as if by beating a drum.

17.  drum
to drive or force by persistent repetition:
to drum an idea into someone.

18.  drum
to fill a drum with; store in a drum.

19.  drum
drum out,

20.  drum
to expel or dismiss from a military service in disgrace to the beat of a drum.

21.  drum
to dismiss in disgrace.

22.  drum
drum up,

23.  drum
to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.

24.  drum
to obtain or create (trade, interest, etc.) through vigorous effort.

25.  drum
to concoct; devise.

26. (Chiefly Scot.) drum
a long narrow hill or ridge.

Etymology: (1715–25; < Ir and ScotGael druim)

Definition of 'drum'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) drum, membranophone, tympan
a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

2. (noun) drum
the sound of a drum
"he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

3. (noun) barrel, drum
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

4. (noun) drum, metal drum
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

5. (noun) brake drum, drum
a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

6. (verb) drum, drumfish
small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

7. (verb) drum, beat, thrum
make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

8. (verb) drum
play a percussion instrument

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"

Definition of 'drum'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) drum
a musical instrument that you hit with a stick to make rhythms

Definition of 'drum'

Webster Dictionary

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

2. (noun) drum
anything resembling a drum in form

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 disk partition 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 “ The Story of Mel'” in Appendix A.

Translation of 'drum'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a musical instrument constructed of skin etc stretched on a round frame and beaten with a stick He plays the drums.
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
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