Dictionary Entry
drum
drum is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
- 2noun
Anything resembling a drum in form
- 3noun
A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
- 4noun
A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
- 5noun
The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
- 6noun
One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
- 7noun
A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
- 8noun
See Drumfish.
- 9noun
A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
- 10noun
A tea party; a kettledrum.
- 11intransitive verb
To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
- 12intransitive verb
To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
- 13intransitive verb
To throb, as the heart.
- 14intransitive verb
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
- 15transitive verb
To execute on a drum, as a tune.
- 16transitive verb
(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
- 17transitive verb
(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
- 18noun
small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
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- 19noun
a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- 20noun
a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
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- 21noun
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
- 22noun
the sound of a drum
"he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
- 23noun
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
Synonyms
- 24verb
study intensively, as before an exam
"I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
- 25verb
play a percussion instrument
- 26verb
make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"
"The drums beat all night"
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