Drum

Definition: Drum

Drum

Noun

1. A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end.

2. The sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes".

3. A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends.

4. A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids.

5. A hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes.

6. Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise.

Verb

1. Make a rhythmic sound: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night".

2. Play the drums.

3. Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Drum \Drum\, noun. [Compare to Dutch trom, trommel, Low German trumme, German trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma, Old High German trumba a trumpet, Icelandic pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Danish drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; probably partly at least of imitative origin.. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Military & Defense

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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DRUM

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Drum

Receptacle

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Repetition

Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.

Rotundity

Cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller; rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle.

Crosswords: Drum

Indonesian (drum, oil drum), Manx (drum), Romanian (course, drive, highway, journey, passage, path, road, route, Street, thoroughfare, trace, track, trajectory, trip, voyage, walk, way), Serbo-Croatian (road, roadway).

What? Do I do my own drum line (Celebrity Mole: Hawaii; writing credit: James Carrington; Jim Carrington)

Neal Pert couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow)

Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm (McHale's Navy; writing credit: Ray Brenner; George Carleton Brown)

And a hum drum ways (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

The beating of my heart is a drum, and it's lost (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House)

The drum beats out of time (Time After Time; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Herb and whack MC's, drum racks (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

The Silent Drum (1973)

Drum în penumbra (1972)

Cinci oameni la drum (1962)

Drum Roll (1961)

Different Drum (performing artist: The Stone Poneys)

BANG THE DRUM ALL DAY  (performing artist: Todd Rundgren )

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References

• Nippon Steel Drum Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 4-Way Coordination: A Method Book for the Development of Complete Independence on the Drum Set (reference)

• Drum Basics, Steps One and Two Combined: Steps One & Two Combined (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (reference)

• Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum (reference)

• More Drum Techniques of Rush (More Drum Superstar Series) (reference)

• The Drummer's Studio Survival Guide: How to Get the Best Possible Drum Tracks on Any Recording Project (The Studio Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Deh Cho Drum (reference)

• Drum (reference)

• Drum Major (reference)

• Drum! (reference)

• Inuvik Drum (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mike Portnoy - Liquid Drum Theater DVD (reference)

• Realistic Rock Drum Method (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nirvana: Atmospheric Drum N' Bass from the Land of the Free... (reference)

• Attica Blues Presents: Drum Major Instinct [IMPORT] (reference)

• Device Voice Drum (reference)

• Fumble/Banging the Drum (reference)

• Bass Drive Vol 1 - America's Finest Drum and Bass (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Futuristic Drum 'n' Bass (reference)

• Drum Tools Loop Library for Acid (reference)

• SONIC FOUNDRY RADS Drum Construction Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Alpenrost Rotary Drum Home Coffee Roaster (reference)

• Norpro Stainless Steel Commercial Drum Grater (reference)

• Delta 31-252 "Limited Edition" 18" x 36" Drum Sander includes X-Long Extension Shaft, 4" Pneumatic Drum, and Dust Tray over a $150.00 Value (reference)

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Chronograph drum without paper Used to record time ticks during longitude observations Astro party of Charles Whitten. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cable drum being pulled by horses across dunes Cable lead to offshore hydrophone for Radio Acoustic Ranging On the GUIDE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Drum Point Lighthouse, now a museum, stood watch at the mouth of the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fishing for spot (member of the croaker or drum family). Credit: Fisheries.

The first fish a young boy had ever caught - an undersized red drum. Too bad it's too small to keep. Credit: Fisheries.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Red drum, Sciaenops occelatus, also known as "spottail bass" in South Carolina, utilize the estuary during the first four years of their lives where they feed primarily on shrimp and crabs. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

During the early 1980s, NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers place TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory) in the path of an on-coming tornado. It would measure temperature, pressure, relative humidity etc. It would record the data on tape inside the 55 gallon drum. TOTO was hit by a small tornado only once in April, 1985. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

A juvenile highhat drum in a pink-tipped anemone. 1990 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Photo Contest entry. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Winch drum - probably contained 10,000 meters of cable and other deck gear. Plate 18. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Drum of hazardous chemical, pH 14, found in Mill buildingTwin Peak MineSalmon Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Tim Geary.

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The drum is silent, reason speaks

[Drum afar off] Hark! I hear their drum.

He beat on the tarpaulin with his hand, and the tight canvas vibrated like a drum.

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Health

In a myringotomy, a surgeon makes a small opening in the ear drum. Then a tube is placed in the opening. (references)

The ear drum and ossicles amplify the vibrations and carry them to the inner ear. The stirrup transmits the amplified vibrations through the oval window and into the fluid that fills the inner ear. The vibrations move through fluid in the snail-shaped hearing part of the inner ear (cochlea) that contains the hair cells. (references)

Business

Chippers, drum debarkers, chip bins, and rotary peelers can also be included as products with strong demand. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

Market partiality to dark (thigh) meat saw drum and thigh cuts comprise nearly all imports under quota. (references)

Philippines

Unfortunately, the ability of the administration to drum up foreign investment has been hindered by sometimes violent challenges to the government's legitimacy and by kidnappings and violence caused by separatist bandits and communist guerrillas throughout the archipelago, especially in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Palawan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

A drum

Expressions using "drum": absorption drum ♦ as tight as a drum ♦ at beat of drum ♦ bass drum ♦ be as tight as a drum ♦ Beat of drum ♦ beat the drum ♦ bongo drum ♦ brake drum ♦ coiling drum * ♦ conga drum ♦ dioptric drum lens ♦ Double drum ♦ drum brake ♦ drum brakes ♦ drum court martial ♦ drum in ♦ drum into ♦ drum kit ♦ drum lens ♦ Drum major ♦ drum majorette ♦ drum one's fingers ♦ drum one's fongers ♦ drum out ♦ drum printer ♦ drum roll ♦ drum sander ♦ drum sanding machine ♦ drum service ♦ drum set ♦ drum skins ♦ drum smth. in smb. ♦ drum storage outdoors ♦ drum store ♦ drum up ♦ drum up smb.'s support for ♦ Drum winding ♦ extraction drum ♦ Fort Drum ♦ generating drum ♦ Horn drum ♦ kettle drum ♦ magnetic drum ♦ making drum ♦ master drum ♦ metal drum ♦ mire drum ♦ mud drum ♦ net drum ♦ outdoor drum storage ♦ RAC drum ♦ red drum ♦ rope drum * ♦ rotary air curtain drum ♦ rotating drum ♦ side drum ♦ small drum ♦ snare drum ♦ steam drum ♦ steel drum ♦ striped drum ♦ surge drum ♦ tenor drum ♦ troll drum ♦ warp drum ♦ warping drum ♦ whipping drum ♦ with beat of drum ♦ without beat of drum. Additional references.

Beginning with "drum": drum-and-rattle, drum-a-thon, drum-backing, drum-banging, drum-beat, drum-beating, drum-beats, drum-fed, drum-fire, drum-fish, drum-head, drum-kit, drum-like, drum-major, drum-maniac, drum-nest, drum-numbed, drum-range, drum-rattle, drum-revolve, drum-roll, drum-rolling, drum-sander, drum-sanding, drum-scanning, drum-shaped, drum-song, drum-stick, drum-tight.

Ending with "drum": hum-drum, oil-drum, side-drum.

Afrikaans

trommel. (various references)

Albanian

daulle (kettle drum, tambour, trommel), daulle e veshit (eardrum, tympanum), gumëzhin (buzz, drone, hum, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), bie daulles (dub, rataplan), enë në formë daulleje, fus me zor (press gang), çikrik (bobbin, crab, hoist, reel, spinning wheel, spool, winch, windlass), gjëmoj (brattle, grumble, pound, resound, roar, rumble, sing, thunder, whang), zukat (buzz, drone, hum), lodër (game, play, plaything, sporting, tiddly-winks, toy), rrotull (about, around, bobbin, coil, pulley, reel, roll, sheave), tambur (tumbler), timpan, tingull i daulles, trokas (clink, dab, knock, percuss, rap, tap), fut me zor (press gang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقر (flip, gouge, peck, percuss, plunk, prickle, tap, tapping), ‏قرع طبلا (beat), ‏قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, hitting, knock, knocking, rap, rapping, ring, sound, striking, tap, toll), ‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ‏طبلة (kettledrum, tympan, tympanum), ‏طبل, ‏طبع فكرة في الذهن, ‏صوت الطبل, ‏أسطوانة (cylinder, disk, record, roller), ‏أطلق صوتا إيقاعيا, ‏دق الطبل في الموسيقي, ‏دعا إلى إجتماع, ‏برميل (barrel, keg, rumble, vat, wood). (various references)

Basque

danbor. (various references)

Bulgarian 

създавам интерес, слухова ципа, цилиндър (beaver, chimney-pot hat, cylinder, plug, silk hat, sleeve, stovepipe hat, tile, top hat, topper), тъпанче (barrel, eardrum), тъпан, тропам (brattle, clatter, stamp), бръмча (boom, burr, buzz, drone, ha, hum, ping, purr, ring, sing, whir, whirr), барабаня (thrum, whang), барабанене (rataplan, rub a dub, thrum, whang), барабан (barrel, cylinder, revolver, roll, sleeve, swift, tambour), бия барабан, бидон (can, jerrican, oil can). (various references)

Chinese 

鼓 (convex, to beat, to rouse). (various references)

Czech

buben. (various references)

Danish

dunk, wiretromle (barrel, warp drum, winch barrel), tromle (barrel *, bobbin, coiling drum *, cylinder, hoisting reel, lifter, reel, ring wheel, rope barrel *, rope drum *, section wheel, segment, spool, to barrel polish, tumble, tumbler, tumbling barrel, winding-reel), tærskecylinder (beater, cylinder, threshing drum), spole (bobbin, coil, inductor, lifter, pirn, reel, solenoid, spool, to cone, to reel, to spool, to wind, twist cop, warm cop, winder), spiltromle (barrel, warp drum, winch barrel), slangetromle, proeveudtagningsbeholder (tub), portaabning (port mouth), magnettromlelager (magnetic drum), magnettromle (magnetic drum), løb (barrel, run), geværløb (barrel). (various references)

Dutch

trommel (can, tin, tin can), trom, rol (account book, character, cylinder, list, part, record, register, role, roll, roller), bus (autobus, bus, can, hub, letterbox, mailbox, motorbus, nave, omnibus, tin, tin can). (various references)

Esperanto

tamburo. (various references)

Faeroese

trumma. (various references)

Farsi 

چلیک (Barrel, Cask), طبل زدن , طبل , ظرف استوانه شکل , دهل (Kettle, Kettledrum, Timpani). (various references)

Finnish

rumpu (culvert). (various references)

French

tambour (drummer), tonnelet. (various references)

Frisian

tromp, tromme. (various references)

German

Trommel (barrel, revolving breech), Walze (barrel, cylinder, platen, roll, roller, rolling mill), Tonne (barrel, bin, buoy, butt, can, cask, ton, tub, tun), Fass (barrel, cask, churn, keg, tub, vat). (various references)

Greek 

τύμπανο (eardrum, tambour, timpano). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתופף (tattoo), תוף (turret), חבית (barrel, butt, cask, vat, wood). (various references)

Hungarian

dob (barrel, cast, fling, jilt, launch, sling, throw, to bung, to ground, to heave, to jilt, to launch, to let fly, to pitch, to shy), dobolás (tattoo). (various references)

Indonesian

drum (oil drum), penggebuk, gendang. (various references)

Italian

tamburo (barrel, tambour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

太鼓 (tambourine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいこ (ancient times, loud cry, shout, tambourine), ドラムかん, ドラム . (various references)

Korean 

드럼 (Drums). (various references)

Manx

stoandey (barrel, the wood), drummeragh, drum, dollan (bodhran, tambour, tray, winnowing fan). (various references)

Norwegian

tromme. (various references)

Occitan

tambor. (various references)

Papiamen

tambora, tambú, tambòr. (various references)

Pig Latin

umdray.(various references)

Portuguese

tambor (bass drum, drum set, drum-fish, drummer, pulley, reel, roll, roller, tambour), cilindro (barrel, boiler, cylinder, reel, roll). (various references)

Romanian

darabanã, clopot (bell, jacket), bate toba (beat the devil's tattoo, rataplan), bidon (can, canteen, flask), butoiaş (barrel, cask, keg, kilderkin, piece), cânta la tobã, canistrã (can, canister, canteen, petrol can), bate ritmic, ciocãni (hammer, knock, Peck, peen, pelt, pound, rap), tobã (pudding, silencer), fâlfâi din aripi, face reclamã (blazon, popularize, publicize, talk up), repeta cu insistenţa, tambur (cylinder, drummer, reel, roller, tambour), timpan (drumhead, eardrum, kettle drum, lunette, tympanum), cilindru (barrel, cylinder, revolver, roll, roller). (various references)

Romany

daòoli. (various references)

Russian 

барабан (barrel, cylinder, reel, revolver, trommel). (various references)

Scottish

druma (a drum). (various references)

Sepedi

moropa. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

doboš (tambour), valjak (cylinder, dolly, roller), udarati u bubanj, tambur (tambour, vestibule), rezervoar (cistern, reservoir, tank), bubnjati, bubanj (drumstick, kettle drum, kettledrum, tambour, tympanum). (various references)

Shona

ngoma. (various references)

Spanish

tambor (drummer, side drum). (various references)

Swazi

sí-gúbhu. (various references)

Swedish

trumma (barrel, beat, cylinder, shaft, thrum). (various references)

Thai

เสียงเคาะจังหวะสม่ำเสมอ, เยื่อแก้วหู (eardrum), เคาะเป็นจังหวะซ้ำๆ, บ้าน (dwelling, gaff, home, house), กลอง (hides), ตีกลอง. (various references)

Turkish

davul sesi (drumbeat, roll, rub a dub), davul çalmak (beat the drum), davul (tambour, timpani, timpano), tekrar ede ede öğretmek, tamtam (tomtom), sütun gövdesi (tige, verge), parmaklarıyla tempo tutmak, kulak zarı (drumhead, eardrum, tympanic membrane, tympanum), bidon (jerry can, skip), şarjör (clip, magazine). (various references)

Turkmen 

deprek. (various references)

Ukrainian

калатати (batter, pump, whack, whop), вистукувати (percuss), вдовбувати, барабанна перетинка (drumhead, eardrum), барабанний бій (drumbeat, drumming, dub, rataplan, tuck), барабанити (pelt, ruff, tattoo), барабан (barrel, beater, cylinder, revolver, tambour, tympanum). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái trống tiếng trống. (various references)

Welsh

tympan (timbrel), tabyrddu (thrum), tabwrdd. (various references)

Yucatec

tunk'ul. (various references)

tympanum. (various references)

tabir. (various references)

tabour, tabur. (various references)

tromme. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drum": drumbeat, drumbeater, drumbeaters, drumbeating, drumbeatings, drumbeats, drumble, drumbled, drumbles, drumbling, drumfire, drumfires, drumfish, drumfishes, drumhead, drumheads, drumlier, drumliest, drumlike, drumlin, drumlins, drumly, drummed, drummer, drummers, drumming, drumroll, drumrolls, drums, drumstick, drumsticks. (additional references)

Words ending with "drum": conundrum, eardrum, epidendrum, humdrum, kettledrum, panjandrum. (additional references)

Words containing "drum": conundrums, doldrums, eardrums, epidendrums, humdrums, kettledrums, panjandrums, quadrumanous, quadrumvir, quadrumvirate, quadrumvirates, quadrumvirs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darum, daruma, daum, derim, derom, deum, Dhruv, dium, dlum, Dorum, doum, Dramm, Drem, dren, Dreu, drim, driom, drom, droma, drome, Dromi, dron, droom, dru, Drud, Drue, druf, druh, druim, drul, druma, Drumbo, drume, drumm, drun, drunt, drup, drut, druv, druw, Duhm, dum, dumm, durf, durm, durn, durp, Erkum, erum, orum, trum, urum, vrum, Zdruj. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mud, rum, urd.

-2 letters: mu, um.

+1 l