drum
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
boxing
entertainment
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
music
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).
Inflected forms:
form: drums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drumming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drummed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drummed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
pos: noun
examples: He's playing the piano and she's playing the drums!
In the Province of Xenſi, near the City Vucung, is a Hill called Taipe, which if a Drum be beaten upon it, preſently followeth Thunder, Lightning, and ſtormy weather, inſomuch that the Magiſtrates have forbidden all perſons upon pain of death to beat any Drum there.
The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.
gloss: Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
pos: noun
examples: Replace the drum unit of your printer.
gloss: A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
pos: noun
examples: The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
gloss: Synonym of construction barrel.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
pos: noun
gloss: A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
pos: noun
gloss: A tip; a piece of information.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’
gloss: The ear.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: To beat a drum.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
gloss: To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
Those long ago memories of gnawing sexuality clashing against drummed in prejudice.
gloss: To throb, as the heart.
pos: verb
examples: Now, heart, […]thou shalt drum no more.
gloss: To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
pos: verb
gloss: Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
pos: verb
examples: "There is the snipe drumming also. We shall have it fine!" he added, with an air of conviction.
Related words: percussion
Derived words: bang on the drum
bang the drum
bang the drum for
barrel drum
bass drum
beat like a jungle drum
beat the drum
beat the drum for
bedrum
big drum
black drum
bongo drum
brake drum
cable drum
caveman drums
chalice drum
cocktail drum
concert bass drum
conga drum
conical drum
construction drum
double-conical drum
double conical drum
drum and bass
drumbeat
drumbeater
drumbeating
drum belly
drumbone
drum brake
drum cadence
drum-dried
drumette
drum fill
drumfire
drumfish
drumful
drumfunk
drumhead
drum head
drum-head court
drum horse
drum kit
drumless
drumlike
drumline
drum machine
drum magazine
drum major
drum majorette
drummie
drummist
drummy
drum 'n' bass
drumology
drum roll
drum set
drumskin
drumstep
drumstick
drum stick
drum talk
drum tower
eardrum
ear drum
footed drum
frame drum
freshwater drum
friction drum
frog drum
furling drum
goblet drum
hand drum
horn drum
hourglass drum
kettle drum
kettledrum
kickdrum
kick drum
Lambeg drum
long drum
march to a different drum
march to one's own drum
march to the beat of a different drum
march to the beat of one's own drum
mud drum
nanodrum
ngoma drum
oil drum
on the drum
pellet drum
red drum
redrum
rollerdrum
side drum
skull drum
slit drum
snare drum
sound the drum
steam drum
steel drum
storm drum
talking drum
tenor drum
thunder-drum
tight as a drum
tom-tom drum
tongue drum
traffic drum
tubular drum
waisted drum
war drum
water drum
drum into
drummer
drumming
drum out
drum up
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