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drum drum

Spelling: [druhm]

IPA: /drʌm/

Drum is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in drum (dmru).

Definitions for drum

noun

1. a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
2. any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.
3. the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.
4. any rumbling or deep booming sound.
5. a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.
6. eardrum.
7. any cylindrical object with flat ends.
8. a cylindrical part of a machine.
9. a cylindrical box or receptacle, especially a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.
10. Also called tambour. Architecture. any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier. a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.
11. any of several marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that produce a drumming sound.
12. Also called drum memory. Computers. magnetic drum.
13. Archaic. an assembly of fashionable people at a private house in the evening.
14. a person who plays the drum.
15. Australian Informal. reliable, confidential, or profitable information:
16. a long, narrow hill or ridge.

Idioms

1. beat the drum, to promote, publicize, or advertise:

Verb phrases

1. drum out, (formerly) to expel or dismiss from a military service in disgrace to the beat of a drum. to dismiss in disgrace:
2. drum up, to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum. to obtain or create (customers, trade, interest, etc.) through vigorous effort: to concoct; devise:

verb (used with object)

1. to beat (a drum) rhythmically; perform by beating a drum:
2. to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.
3. to drive or force by persistent repetition:
4. to fill a drum with; store in a drum:

verb (used without object)

1. to beat or play a drum.
2. to beat on anything rhythmically, especially to tap one's fingers rhythmically on a hard surface.
3. to make a sound like that of a drum; resound.
4. (of ruffed grouse and other birds) to produce a sound resembling drumming.

Origin of drum

1535-45; back formation from drumslade drum, drummer, alteration of Dutch or Low German trommelslag drumbeat, equivalent to trommel drum + slag beat (akin to slagen to beat; cognate with

Examples for drum

At the turn of the century, zoos displaying so-called primitive cultures were used to drum up public support for colonialism.

The drum's was the only voice in Saint Antoine that blood and hurry had not changed.

It was the sharp peremptory note of the drum beating the alarm.

He ran like he was barreling down the stairs and he struggled to climb the 15-foot-tall drum riser.

Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.

He was born at Groton on May 8, 1789, and began to drum in early boyhood.

It consists of a tympanum or drum, having a stylus attached as in the phonograph.

She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim.

The line extends from the drum to the flying or gliding machine.

They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.