drum

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]

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]drumming n : the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several hours every day"drumming See drum

English

Pronunciation

• /'dɹʌmɪŋ/

Noun

drumming

1. The act of beating a drum.

Translations

Verb

drumming

1. present participle of drum

Translations

• Ewe: ʋu ƒom

Drumming may refer to:

• the act of playing the drums or other percussion instruments
• Drumming, a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1971 for percussion ensemble
• Drumming (snipe), mechanical sound produced by snipe in the course of aerial courtship displays
• the rapid, repetitive series of strikes of a woodpecker's bill on a tree or other substrate to establish territory or attract a mate
• a mating display of animals such as birds, often in connection with a lek (mating arena)

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