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drum
has definitions from the fields of zoology,music,education
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[ noun ] (music) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
Synonyms Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Drums , xylophones , castanets , and other percussive_instruments are reproduced remarkably well . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)The sound of his footsteps was like a muffled drum . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)The boundless blue_air was stretched over the zenith like the skin of a drum . Related terms percussion_instrument bongo tambourine snare_drum tabor tambour bass_drum tenor_drum timbrel drumhead |
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[ verb ] (music) play the drums
Used in print (The Providence Journal...)One of those delightful surprise additions , which so frequently occur in jazz programs , was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe_Jones , drumming to `` Old_Man River '' , which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year 's concerts . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the sound of a drum
Examples "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (music) make a rhythmic sound
Examples : "Rain drummed against the windshield" "The drums beat all night" Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Standing in the shelter of the tent - a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped , no_longer drumming - Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels . |
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[ noun ] a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6923
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[ noun ] a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
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[ noun ] (zoology) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
Synonyms Related terms sciaenid_fish silver_perch jackknife-fish red_drum striped_drum |
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