Drum

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
 * 3) In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
 * The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
 * 1)  A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
 * 2)  Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar

Derived terms

 * bass drum
 * drum and bass
 * drum beat


 * drum kit
 * drummer
 * drum roll


 * drumstick
 * drum stick
 * hand drum


 * kettledrum
 * snare drum
 * tenor drum

Verb

 * 1)  (music) To beat a drum.
 * 2)  To knock successively and playfully.
 * Drumming one’s fingers on a table is often an expression of impatience or annoyance.
 * 1)  To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
 * He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.

Derived terms

 * drummer

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 or  trommelslag: "drumbeat" from trommel: "drum" from trom: "drum" + slag: "beat" from slagen: "to beat".

Alternate etymology traces drum directly from tromme: "drum" or  trumme: "drum". Akin to trumme:, trumbe: "drum",  trumba: "trumpet". More at.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: danbor
 * Bemba: iñ-ñoma
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: taboulin
 * Bulgarian:, тъпан
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: ʋu
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: τύμπανο
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: תוף (tof)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 太鼓 (たいこ, taiko), ドラム (doramu)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌وڵ, ته‌پڵ


 * Latvian: bungas
 * Lithuanian: būgnas
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Mongolian:
 * Northern Sotho:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnolo: tambùr
 * Romani: दऊलि (daūli)
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: бубањ, добош
 * Roman: bubanj, doboš
 * Shona: ngoma
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swati:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tambol
 * Taos: múluną
 * Turkmen: deprek
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yucatec: tunk'ul


 * Arabic: (ṭabla)
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tromle, tønde
 * Ewe: ʋu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: τύμπανο


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tromla
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ваљак, бубањ , добош
 * Roman: valjak, bubanj , doboš
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: варел
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tønde
 * Dutch: vat
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: буре
 * Roman: bure
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Armenian: թմբկահարել
 * Bulgarian: бия барабан
 * Catalan: tamborinejar
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Ewe: ƒo ʋu
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: τυμπανίζω


 * Hebrew: לתופף (letofef)
 * Hungarian: dobol
 * Icelandic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: в
 * Slovene: bobnati
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: թմբկահարել
 * Bulgarian: барабаня
 * Catalan: tamborinejar
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: dobol
 * Icelandic:
 * Portuguese: batucar
 * Russian: барабанить
 * Slovene: bobnati
 * Spanish: tamborear
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: набивам
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: einpauken, einbläuen
 * Hungarian: belesulykol


 * Icelandic:
 * Russian: вдалбливать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * 1)  drum

Synonyms

 * trommel

Derived terms

 * drumstel

Adverb
drum (contraction of darum)


 * 1) thereabout
 * 2) therefore
 * 3) on that account, for that reason

Etymology
From δρόμος:

Noun

 * 1) road

Related terms

 * drumar
 * drumeag
 * drumeț
 * drumeție
 * drumui
 * drumuleț
 * drumușor

Etymology
From δρόμος:.

Noun

 * 1) road