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drum English

Meaning drum meaning

What does drum mean?
Definitions in simple English

drum Noun

— A drum is a musical instrument with a skin that you hit to make music. My cousin plays drums. — A drum is kind of big barrel. They were keeping garbage in an old oil drum.

drum Verb

— If you are drumming you are making music with a drum or drums. I saw him drumming with the band. — If you are drumming, you are hitting or tapping something like it was a drum. Sometimes I drum on my desk with my fingers. Sometimes I drum my fingers on my desk. (same meaning as above)

drum

— noun a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end — noun the sound of a drum he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes — verb (= beat) make a rhythmic sound Rain drummed against the windshield The drums beat all night — verb play a percussion instrument — noun a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids — noun small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise — noun (= brake drum) a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes — noun (= barrel) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends — verb (= bone up, bone) study intensively, as before an exam I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

Synonyms drum synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as drum?

drum English » English

barrel beat cask croaker beat a drum tympan tambour large drum jew fish tomtom thrum tap swot up swot small drum mug up metal drum membranophone kettle-drum grind away get up drumfish cram brake drum bone up bone tympanum tank tambourine tabour tabor scroll roller plate percussion instrument metal container knock keg hammer drumstick drumbeat donkey fish cylinder cup billycan bass drum bang work weapons war-drum

Topics drum topics

What do people use drum to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Rain
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds

Conjugation drum conjugation

How do you conjugate drum?

drum · verb

Examples drum examples

How do I use drum in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I hear the drum.
She can play the drum.
They usually drum their fingers at red lights.
A bass drum, a snare drum, and cymbals were once all a composer needed to make a work sound exotic.
What police thought was a distressed cat turned out to be a man practicing the cuica, a drum which produces noise by rubbing a stick attached to the drumhead from the inside.
Tom usually plays a drum solo at least once every time his band gives a concert.
Do not beat the drum. Beat the drummer.
Jim likes to play the drum.
They had been thumping the drum all along.
Saule, give me the drum.
Saule, give the drum.
He plays the drum.
A fool is like a drum - beaten by anyone passing by.

Movie subtitles

Then drum will join drum. flag will join flag. group will join group, Gau to Gau. and after that, this earlier divided people. will follow these sacred columns of the Nation.
Let the war drum call to battle!
Well, now to finish, suppose we see some of the percussion instruments, beginning with the bass drum.
Juan coming home- and my heart starts beating again like a drum.
That's the work drum over at the sugar mill.
Sheriff Drum is here to make a very important announcement.
Hey, what's all the shouting' and drum beating' about?
And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down the kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.
A drum, a drum!
He's locked up tight as a drum.
I'll ring down after you fall in the drum.
No, after I'm carried off in the drum.
Drum roll.
Drum roll!
That drum doesn't seem stationary.
The chiefs have promised 200 more runners once you drum out the call.
Saidi, send out the runners, drum up the tribes.
Drum.
Or did they drum that much morality into you in Parramatta?
And even if I might get robbed six times by seven men, I keep on hitting my big drum, I keep on making boom boom boom!
Early in the morning the timber drum summons the monks for their ritual daily work.
This one slides down the banister and lands - bang! - right on the big drum.
There should be a drum roll.
Look, Gallagher, I know this drum's full of crackpots.
I've been relaxed for three weeks and look at me now- reduced to pounding the pedal of a bass drum for a little excitement.
Don't drum on the bowls, you'll bring the dead man back.
Mrs. Drum.
Perhaps you also have some drum majorettes.
Tight as a drum.
The drum and flute of a marriage procession mingled. with the laughter of the dancing girls as they journeyed to a village wedding.
The armature is in contact with the brake drum and revolves with the wheel.
Like a drum leather, old, but tight.
How you feel? I got pain on my left side. My leg throb like a drum.

News and current affairs

For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag-waving, anthem-singing, drum-beating patriotism.

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