Drum
English
Noun
Drum (plural Drums)- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
- (obsolete or historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 631:
- Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 631:
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar
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Verb
Drum (third-person singular simple present Drums, present participle drumming, simple past and past participle drummed)
- (intransitive) (music) To beat a drum.
- (intransitive) To knock successively and playfully.
- Drumming one’s fingers on a table is often an expression of impatience or annoyance.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
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Adjectives for Drum
deafening; rolling; cask-like; sullen; insistent; furious; sardonic; deep-throated; bellowing; exploding; jarring; perpetual; droning; boisterous; revolving; muffled; recruiting; thumping; unbraced; churlish; distant; weird; rattling; repeating; monotonous.
Verbs for Drum
belabor—; hearken to—; muffle—; rattle—; sound—; strike up—; thump—; —beats; — booms; —murmurs; —rolls; —stirs; — thunders; —warns; —welcomes.
Adverbs for Drum
fretfully; vigorously; deafeningly; sullenly; insistently; furiously; jarringly; perpetually; droningly; muffledly; thumpingly; weirdly; monotonously.
Thesaurus
barrage, barrel, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beat the drum, beat time, beating, bole, bongo drum, cackle, call, canvass, carol, cask, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, column, conga, coo, count, count the beats, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, cylinder, cylindroid, din, ding, drizzle, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumhead, drumming, drumskin, drumstick, fall, flutter, gabble, gaggle, go pitapat, gobble, guggle, hammer, honk, hoo, hoot, jazz stick, keep time, kettle, kettledrum, membranophone, mizzle, palpitate, palpitation, pant, paradiddle, patter, peep, pelt, pillar, pip, pipe, pitapat, pitter-patter, play drum, pound, pounding, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, quack, rain, rain tadpoles, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, roller, rouleau, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, scold, shower, shower down, side drum, sing, snare, snare drum, sound a tattoo, spatter, spit, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter, squawk, staccato, stream, tabor, taboret, tabret, tam-tam, tambourine, tap, tat-tat, tattoo, tenor drum, throb, throbbing, thrum, thump, thumping, tick, ticktock, timbrel, timpani, tom-tom, trill, troll-drum, trunk, tube, tweet, twit, twitter, tymp stick, tympan, tympanon, tympanum, war drum, warble, weep, whistle
Etymology
1535, back-formation from drumslade "drummer" from Dutch or Low German trommelslag "drumbeat" from trommel "drum" from trom "drum" + slag "beat" from slagen "to beat".
Alternate etymology traces drum directly from Middle Dutch tromme "drum" or Middle Low German trumme "drum". Akin to Middle High German trumme, trumbe "drum", Old High German trumba "trumpet". More at trumpet.
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Dutch
Noun
Drum m. (plural drums)
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German
Adverb
drum (contraction of darum)
- thereabout
- therefore
- on that account, for that reason
Romanian
Etymology
From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road, track”)
Noun
Drum
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Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gender n. | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | un Drum | drumul | niște drumuri | drumurile |
| genitive/dative | unui Drum | drumului | unor drumuri | drumurilor |
| vocative | — | — | — | — |
See also
References
Language in Danger Andrew Dalby, 2003
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road; track”).
Noun
drȕm m. (Cyrillic spelling дру̏м)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | drum | drumovi |
| genitive | druma | drumova |
| dative | drumu | drumovima |
| accusative | drum | drumove |
| vocative | drume | drumovi |
| locative | drumu | drumovima |
| instrumental | drumom | drumovima |
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