Definition of Drum

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Definition of Drum

Drum

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.

Anything resembling a drum in form

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.

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.

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.

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.

See Drumfish.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

A tea party; a kettledrum.

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

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.

To throb, as the heart.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(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.

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Drum Quotations

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
Steven Tyler

What's really good is African drum music.
Fiona Apple

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
Charlie Watts

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
Charlie Watts

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
Charlie Watts

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
Ben Harper

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.
Travis Barker

Drum Translations

drum in Afrikaans is trommel
drum in Dutch is bus, trom, rol, trommel
drum in Finnish is rumpu
drum in French is tambour
drum in German is Trommel
drum in Italian is tamburo
drum in Norwegian is tromme
drum in Portuguese is cilindro
drum in Spanish is tambor
drum in Swedish is trumma

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