Found 4 items, similar to Drum.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: drum drum, gendang, penggebuk
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: drum drum, oil drum
English → English (WordNet) Definition: drum drum n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end [syn: membranophone, tympan] 2: the sound of a drum; “he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes” 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel] 4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [syn: metal drum] 5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes [syn: brake drum] 6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise [syn: drumfish] [also: drumming, drummed] drum v 1: make a rhythmic sound; “Rain drummed against the windshield”; “The drums beat all night” [syn: beat, thrum] 2: play a percussion instrument 3: study intensively, as before an exam; “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam” [syn: cram, grind away , bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] [also: drumming, drummed]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Drum Drum \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) 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. [1913 Webster] The drums cry bud-a-dub. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as: (a) 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. (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.) 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. (e) (Mach.) 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo["o]l.) See Drumfish. [1913 Webster] 4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. --Smollett. [1913 Webster] Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares. [1913 Webster] 5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. Double drum. See under Double. [1913 Webster] Drum \Drum\, v. t. 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. [1913 Webster] 2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. (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. [1913 Webster] Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. [1913 Webster]