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drum
1[ druhm ]
noun
- a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually 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, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.
- the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.
- any rumbling or deep booming sound.
- a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.
- any cylindrical object with flat ends.
- a cylindrical part of a machine.
- a cylindrical box or receptacle, especially a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.
- Also called tambour. Architecture.
- any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.
- a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.
- Ichthyology. any of several marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that produce a drumming sound.
- Also called drum memory. Computers. magnetic drum ( def ).
- Archaic. an assembly of fashionable people at a private house in the evening.
- a person who plays the drum.
- Australian Informal. reliable, confidential, or profitable information:
to give someone the drum.
verb (used without object)
- to beat or play a drum.
- to beat on anything rhythmically, especially to tap one's fingers rhythmically on a hard surface.
- to make a sound like that of a drum; resound.
- (of ruffed grouse and other birds) to produce a sound resembling drumming.
verb (used with object)
- to beat (a drum) rhythmically; perform by beating a drum:
to drum a rhythm for dancers.
- to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.
- to drive or force by persistent repetition:
to drum an idea into someone.
- to fill a drum with; store in a drum:
to drum contaminated water and dispose of it.
verb phrase
- to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.
- to obtain or create (customers, trade, interest, etc.) through vigorous effort:
They were unable to drum up enthusiasm for the new policies.
- (formerly) to expel or dismiss from a military service in disgrace to the beat of a drum.
- to dismiss in disgrace:
He was drummed out of the university for his gambling activities.
drum
2[ druhm ]
noun
- a long, narrow hill or ridge.
drum
1/ ʌ /
noun
- music a percussion instrument sounded by striking a membrane stretched across the opening of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere
- beat the drum for informal.to attempt to arouse interest in
- the sound produced by a drum or any similar sound
- an object that resembles a drum in shape, such as a large spool or a cylindrical container
- architect
- one of a number of cylindrical blocks of stone used to construct the shaft of a column
- the wall or structure supporting a dome or cupola
- short for eardrum
- Also calleddrumfish any of various North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fishes, such as Equetus pulcher ( striped drum ), that utter a drumming sound
- a type of hollow rotor for steam turbines or axial compressors
- computing a rotating cylindrical device on which data may be stored for later retrieval: now mostly superseded by disks See disk
- archaic.a drummer
- the drum informal.the necessary information (esp in the phrase give ( someone ) the drum )
verb
- to play (music) on or as if on a drum
- to beat or tap (the fingers) rhythmically or regularly
- intr (of birds) to produce a rhythmic sound, as by beating the bill against a tree, branch, etc
- trsometimes foll byup to summon or call by drumming
- tr to instil by constant repetition
to drum an idea into someone's head
drum
2/ ʌ /
noun
- a narrow ridge or hill
Other Word Forms
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Word History and Origins
Origin of drum1
Origin of drum2
Word History and Origins
Origin of drum1
Origin of drum2
Idioms and Phrases
- beat the drum, to promote, publicize, or advertise:
The boss is out beating the drum for a new product.
Example Sentences
Two weeks before her murder, Sardinha texted him to say that she could not hear, because he had busted her ear drum.
On the drums currently is Anton Fig, who most people know from his tenure on "The David Letterman Show."
Everyone has to agree, it's really been drummed into us — and I went to business school, I've been through this indoctrination process — that everyone works for the shareholder.
The Dodgers never drummed up run support for their ace, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, succumbing to a shutout for the second time and falling into a three-game losing streak for the first time since last August.
While neighboring countries often have territorial disputes, he said Mexican governments, particularly those associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, made the U.S. the boogeyman in order to drum up domestic support, he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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