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Definition: Steel Drum |
Steel DrumNoun1. A concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Steel Drum |
| Specialty definitions using "steel drum": BREAKER TENDER ♦ sheepsfoot roller ♦ tamped roller. (references) |
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Screenplays | 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) | |
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 | Caribbean-influenced excerpt using steel drum techniques and rhythms. | | Steel drum tone. |
| Steel drum tone. | ||
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| Japan | Nippon Steel Drum Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
steel drum | 296 | steel drum history | 5 |
steel drum music | 76 | caribbean steel drum music | 5 |
steel drum band | 52 | steel drum mp3 | 5 |
stainless steel drum | 36 | steel drum band new york | 4 |
steel drum message board | 28 | steel drum cd | 3 |
steel drum pan | 18 | steel drum of trinidad | 3 |
industrial steel drum | 16 | calypso steel drum | 3 |
55 gallon steel drum | 13 | new jersey steel drum band | 2 |
steel drum of the caribbean | 10 | san diego steel drum band | 2 |
steel drum for sale | 6 | 55 gal steel drum | 2 |
columbus steel drum | 6 | buy steel drum | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-m-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: deluster, demurest, lustered, mustered, resulted. | |
-2 letters: duelers, eluders, lemures, lustred, melders, melters, relumed, relumes, remelts, resmelt, resumed, rustled, smelted, smelter, strudel, teledus. | |
-3 letters: demure, demurs, desert, deters, dueler, duster, elders, eldest, eluder, eludes, eluted, elutes, estrum, etudes, lemurs, leudes, lusted, luster, lustre, melder, melted, melter, merdes, merest, merles, meters, metred, metres, musted, mustee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-m-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: kettledrums. | |
+3 letters: restimulated, somersaulted, tremendously. | |
+4 letters: summersaulted, underlayments. | |
+5 letters: demultiplexers, disgruntlement, overstimulated, verisimilitude. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 65 65 6C 44 72 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100101 01100101 01101100 00100000 01000100 01110010 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t e e l   D r u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0065 0065 006C 0044 0072 0075 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5386717178238848779 |
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