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nounPlural drums drʌmdrəm 1A percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends. a shuffling dance to the beat of a drum Example sentencesExamples - And the third setting is just right for recording louder sound sources such as drums or percussion instruments.
- Before that, he played the bass drum in his high school marching band.
- Sitting in the midst of an array of flutes of all sizes, large drums and other musical instruments, this old man was trying to get our attention for the longest time.
- The resulting album is a pleasant mix of guitars and drums, with electronic sounds, that is headed up by a strong vocal performer.
- Beninese also make a wide range of handmade instruments, from twin drums to small Beninese guitars.
- Here they are replaced with thin crackling snares and pounding tribal bass drums.
- The teacher gave each kid a rhythm instrument to play - drums, cymbals, sticks, and so on.
- So what about percussion instruments: drums, cymbals, tympani - can they express emotion too?
- And people are being urged to take along drums or makeshift percussion instruments - even dustbins - to give the extravaganza a resounding boost.
- The Korean fans are banging drums and urging their team on with even more vigour.
- Protesters moved in groups of 40 to 50 amid whirring sirens and beating drums.
- James was fond of percussion that didn't even pretend to sound like real drums.
- A lambeg drum is an enormous instrument beaten with great enthusiasm by orange marching bands.
- The ancient sound of African djembe drums can be heard outside office towers and health centers across the world.
- At such high speeds, priorities invert; the drums become the lead instrument.
- In the first-aid room, I come across Evans helping four children to find the scariest way to suggest the presence of a lurking Minotaur using drums, cymbals and sticks.
- Another work along the same lines is Curse Upon Iron, which replaces the bass drum with a shaman drum and adds female voices to the choir.
- After the likes of such instruments as guitars, drums, bass guitar, and harmonica, the band whipped out the allusive Australian didgeridoo.
- Each track seems to be accented with an exotic instrument like the Indian drum, bass conga, Moroccan clay drums, and the wah-wah bass.
- The gloomy gothic mood of the background sounds serves the metallic drums and dark vocals, contributing to make this song a rather unsettling moment.
- 1.1drums A drum kit.
how to play guitar, drums, or keyboards Example sentencesExamples - On top of writing and producing the thing, he played every instrument - guitar, drums, piano, bass, you-name-it.
- Finlay's band includes locals Cory Papirny on drums and bassist Chris Brzezicki.
- A set of drums, suspended cymbals, and other percussion instruments forming the basic equipment of the jazz, rock, and dance-band drummer.
- Zak Starkey, a Beatle once-removed, plays drums on this latest offering.
- I played drums in little combos at school, then from the age of 13 or 14, with some of the local country bands around the town of Lubbock.
- Almost overlooked on drums, Josh provides the support for Billy to discharge the chords, and Cooper to rifle her bass.
- This is Chris, his home computer, a guitar, some second hand drums, and several months of late nights whilst holding down the day job.
- There might be the odd guitar and battered amplifier, even a set of sixties drums to give a struggling band genuine credibility but no synth band was ever going to start in our school.
- He took care of the songwriting, vocals, and guitar playing, and two local musicians contributed on bass and drums.
- What's instantly impressive is just how much mayhem the band can bring to the table with just a piano and drums.
- Courtenay Purcell came in on keyboards, Jake Gladman on bass, and Mike Roberts completed the rhythm section on drums.
- Now they are back with a new name and a new line-up featuring Russell on drums and percussion, Daniel as singer/songwriter and Chris Clapton, 24, on bass.
- The house band, featuring Phil Collins on drums and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, will accompany the concert.
- Dan took control of virtually all the instruments in the studio, although his brother was brought in to play drums.
- I grew up playing music with my brother - I played drums and he played guitar mostly rock stuff.
- Throughout, he's ably abetted by a crack team of session musicians, including ace jazzer Bill Frisell on guitar and Jim Keltner on drums.
- A lot of people don't know that both Keith and I did drums.
- We then took a break for a few months and played our next gig nine months later, this time as a four piece with Tom on rhythm guitar and Martin on drums.
- David's favorite percussion instrument was the drums.
- Holland's ruthless energy on the drums summed up the band as a whole; relentless, on form, and obviously enjoying themselves.
- 1.2drums The percussion section of a band or orchestra.
Example sentencesExamples - While the 72nd Sutton Music Festival will benefit from a grant of £300 to enable organisers to set up a new section for drums and keyboard musicians.
- Harmonies come courtesy of three male singers while the percussion, bass and drums ensure the sound is wrapped in the rhythms of their Guinean ancestors.
- The staples are represented - alto and soprano sax, bass, drums, woodwinds, piano, and, to a lesser extent, the clarinet and some vocals.
- Intensity and loudness increases by the middle of the movement, with some sharp attacks by the strings, with drums and syncopated rhythms.
- Jazz bands without drums or bass oblige the remaining participants to be extremely industrious.
- Inside the car, the hundred megaton speakers may be transmitting the unique sound of some howling pop star with an ululating mouth harp and a back-up band, heavy on drums.
- 1.3in singular A sound made by or resembling that of a drum.
Example sentencesExamples - She heard the tin whistle begin, and without even realising she was doing it, began tapping her feet to the ever-present drum.
- To the drum of a coxswain, international member paddlers of the Shanghai Shang Long Dragon Boat Team press forward on Dianshan Lake.
- Beyond the sound of their chit-chat you sense the sonorous vibe of the African bush - from the hum of mosquito through the drum of cicada to the snorts of the hippos - closing in.
Synonyms beat, rhythm, patter, tap, chatter, pounding, thump, thumping, thud, thudding, rattle, rattling, pitter-patter, rat-a-tat, pit-a-pat, thrum, tattoo, vibration, throb, throbbing, pulsation archaic bicker, clacket - 1.4historical A military drummer.
2A cylindrical container or receptacle. a drum of powdered bleach Example sentencesExamples - Tests on a 55-gallon drum came up positive for mustard gas.
- The cigarettes, with a retail value of £350,000, were found inside drums of pine resin in a container that had arrived in Britain through Dover.
- He thought something was strange as he looked inside the drums, but had no idea of the hazard as he filled up his backpack sprayer.
- But staff giving evidence said they would stand inside a large rotating drum to clean the slowly-moving rollers with an air hose.
- Then, overnight, completely saturate it by placing it in a soaking vessel such as an old bathtub or an open-topped metal drum.
- As well as 580 litres in the tanks they will carry about 600 litres in drums inside the vehicle: this is certainly no Smart car.
- I guess they figure if you have room enough to store a 55-gallon drum of mayonnaise, well, you have the space to store a coffin until needed.
- Inside these are drums for the mine tether cables that would have been attached to mines resting in the bowl-shaped indentation on the upper side of the trolley.
- After washing the reel, rinse it off in clean water then thoroughly dry the reel, taking special care of the inside of the drum and the drag area.
- Documents found inside some of the drums, identified the actual sources of the waste - small and medium-size firms from the Veneto region of Italy.
- Research in collaboration with Peugeot has developed propulsion units rather like hamsters running inside a drum.
- What tends to happen is that the cords find their way into the rotating drum inside the body of the plane.
- Inside the bottomless drum are mixed items waiting to be sorted, treasures waiting to be uncovered.
- The mangoes that my parents had picked from outside their window had ripened inside the rice drum.
- Inside the drum's body is a padlocked hatch into which the money falls.
- The people who have been on the coast the longest are entitled to more water, and those who are newcomers only have the right to one drum, and that has to last two weeks.
- Though barrels may be close to extinct, companies still ship some oil in 55-gallon steel drums.
- The water is transferred from gutters into black 55-gallon drums via garden hoses, which allows me to switch from one drum to another with ease.
- I landed just on the edge of the very last fuel drum.
- There's more to a chemical or biological weapons program than rusting drums and pieces of munitions.
Synonyms canister, barrel, cylinder, tank, bin, can container, receptacle, holder, vessel, repository - 2.1 A rotating cylindrical part in a washing machine, in which the washing is placed.
Example sentencesExamples - Mohsan likened clock speeds to the RPM's of washing machine drums.
- Our baits were stored in large metal washing machine drums that we had shipped out specifically for the purpose, this kept them in superb condition.
- If dead radio stations have graves, GLR must be spinning like a washing machine's drum right now.
- Sometimes dye will come off new blue jeans and dry on the inside of the dryer drum, and then transfer to the next batch of wet clothes put inside.
- Good to check dryer drum after load of brand new jeans.
- Instead they may show excessive interest in repetitive activities, such as lining up their toys or watching the washing machine drum rotate for an extended period of time.
- In 2000 the Contrarotator was launched, the world's first washing machine with two rotating drums.
- 2.2 A cylindrical part in certain other appliances.
Example sentencesExamples - The drum rotates as one moves the pedals, like in a bicycle.
- The drum was constantly rotated at 30 rpm. Each fly was placed in the middle arm of a T-shaped glass tube.
- They were standard gun-tanks fitted with rotating drums driven off their engines, from which weighted chains flailed paths through minefields.
- A direct-drive gearbox rotates the drum without the use of external gears.
- In drum sanders the sandpaper is mounted on a cylindrical drum that rotates on an axis parallel to the plane of the floor.
- Rotating drums can be tilted forward or backward, hydraulically, to adjust for litter condition.
- The lamps were arranged vertically on the circumference of a drum around which the samples rotated at a distance of 3.5 cm.
- The other side piece is located between the crank shaft and the drum, which rotate relative to each other.
- 2.3Architecture The circular vertical wall supporting a dome.
Example sentencesExamples - Sydney's brick drum, which was never intended to be seen from the outside, is being given a Portland stone skin.
- Foster and Partners' solution was to clad the circular drum with limestone to match the courtyard walls.
- It is given dynamism by a big brick drum which contains the main lecture theatre, and Is positioned asymmetrically to ensure that the space does not become rigid.
- These columns are concealed by the new limestone cladding surrounding the entire drum of the Reading Room.
- The roof spans from the four sides of the quadrangle onto a new ring of 20 columns that surround the reading room's drum and are concealed by its new smooth stone skin.
- Portions of this platform could then be removed in stages to allow the drum of the dome to be constructed through the platform.
- 2.4Architecture A stone block forming part of a column.
Example sentencesExamples - The Corinthian pronaos surmounted by a drum in Juvarra's design for the facade was only added in the 19th century.
- Today several column drums and capitals are to be found in GD 80.
- 2.5Australian, NZ A tramp's bundle of belongings.
Example sentencesExamples - It's home I'd like to be, not humping my drum in the sheep country.
3British informal A house or flat. Example sentencesExamples - As 1992 approaches, a new drum in SE15 would have you well placed to enter the European market place.
- My las' drum was in a tower block an' the lifts were never workin'.
4An evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century. a drum at Lady Beresford's 5Australian NZ informal A piece of reliable inside information. he had got the drum that the police wouldn't lock us up Example sentencesExamples - I'll give you all the drum - since the police station was bombed and someone offed his wife, Tom Croydon has been mighty surly.
- The boss has got a heap of good race horses and he always gives you the drum when they're goin'.
verbdrums, drumming, drummed drʌmdrəm 1no object Play on a drum. he channelled his energies into drumming with local groups Example sentencesExamples - On a weekly basis the programme consists of samba drumming, guitar and dance.
- It was the travelling that brought an end to the original John Barry Seven, said Mr Golder, who still drums in a concert band.
- There's wild drumming throughout, and though it'll test your patience from time to time, the whole of the CD is wrapped up in 30 minutes give or take.
- Also, you'll hear bongo drumming and readings from Feynman's popular books.
- Both performances drew heavily on Melanesian sounds - interspersed with high energy chanting, drumming and dancing.
- The first two are rather general, because my work comprises more than writing and editing: I also get income from drumming and sometimes from photography.
- Luke's hobbies include karate, in which he has a yellow belt, motorcycling - his parents bought him a motorbike for his 16th birthday - and drumming.
- They work at festivals, so there are lots of people that can help out with drumming and energy work while they do their thing.
- And Grohl's drumming on the album is exceptional, as well.
- This was the real deal too - none of your tourist queso malarkey, just a bunch of locals sitting around, strumming and drumming and clapping and singing.
- When he is not soaring off into the sunset, he can be found drumming in the band Absent Friends.
- Evening classes for adults take place on Monday and Wednesday for beginner and advanced fiddle and guitar, and on Tuesday and Thursday for choir, handbells and drumming.
- Workshops also took place in St Sampson's Square and King's Square, including children's face mask painting, drumming, music and samba dancing.
- Reitzell, who drums with Air, warns me during my nail-biting wait that Shields tends to work all night and sleep all day and never answers his phone.
- The festival would not be complete without the ancient art of Taiko drumming.
- The energy from the land was invigorating and there was drumming in the near distance that added to the ambiance.
- Not a success at school, he drifted from job to job before following his mother into drumming as a career.
- The masters of Japan's traditional and contemporary taiko drumming combine physical performance and incredible musicianship.
- Also, surprising to me, was the skill and energy of Torry Castellano's drumming.
- Samantha, you started drumming when you were 12?
- 1.1 Make a continuous rhythmic noise.
she felt the blood drumming in her ears hooves drummed on the turf Example sentencesExamples - As evening approached, the rain persisted, streaking the windowpanes and drumming rhythmically against the rooftop.
- Only one set of hooves drummed behind him, muffled somewhat by the snow.
- As the clock strikes eight an enormous din breaks out, with prisoners banging, shouting and drumming on doors.
- The heavy rain drummed against the windows rhythmically, making dark music that only the heartbroken could enjoy.
- Suddenly he could hear his heartbeat drumming in his ears, muffling out the rest of the surrounding clatter.
- Ellin could hear her heart-beat drumming madly in her ears.
- A soft rumble of thunder rolled from the sky and the rain began to quicken, drumming on the roof in a strange, oddly comforting rhythm.
- With the rain drumming on the roof, I was transported to the African bush.
- Jean said: ‘He started drumming on plastic buckets on the lawn when he was about two.’
- She was quite content to sit on the sofa and listen to the rhythmic pattern of the autumn rain drumming on the metal roof of the shed.
- Her voice was quaking, panicked in a way that sent my blood drumming in my ears.
- The twins continued sitting there, their hearts drumming anxiously.
- Alex drummed on the table with his thumbs, and then looked up at his troubled friend.
- I woke up to the sound of rain drumming on the roof.
- It was the sort of day when you want to stay indoors but you have to go out shopping anyway, ending up in the supermarket listening to the rain drumming on the roof of the store.
- Out of the silence came a low hum that started soft and grew in volume until it filled everything around it, a pulsating beat that drummed with a steady rhythm.
- My heart drumming in my ears, I was still too shocked to move.
- He had natural rhythm and he'd drum on pots and pans.
- Hooves drummed against the packed earth and the horses raced as fast as their legs could carry them.
- She hadn't been this close to him in a long time, so close she could hear his heart drumming by her ear, feel the rhythm of his breathing.
- 1.2with object Beat (the fingers, feet, etc.) repeatedly on a surface, especially as a sign of impatience or annoyance.
waiting around an empty table, drumming their fingers Example sentencesExamples - Absentmindedly I tapped my foot and drummed my fingers.
- He scowled at the computer screen in front of him, drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently.
- Waiting to be served a beer, Tom Fiore drums his fingers impatiently on the polished countertop.
- Kiara waited for a reply, drumming her fingers on the railing of the stairs impatiently.
- She ordered a white wine from a passing waiter, drumming her fingers on the table restlessly.
- The girl held a small, black cell phone to her ear and listened to a dial tone, drumming her fingers impatiently.
- He drummed his fingers impatiently on her desk awaiting an answer.
- She drummed her fingers impatiently against the smooth surface of the table, eyes watching the baristas as they made drink after drink.
- Karl put away the cleaning supplies and walked over to sit next to the phone, staring at it while drumming his fingers repeatedly on the desk.
- Paige drummed her fingers impatiently against her thighs, tapping her foot against the floor of the car.
- She fidgeted constantly, tapping her foot, drumming her fingers on her leg, or plucking at her newly straightened hair.
- He drummed the fingers of his free hand against the counter impatiently.
- Ava sat on the edge of the bed, twirling her hair around her fingers, and Damien drummed his feet against the headboard.
- She started the car and pulled into Andreas' driveway, drumming her fingers impatiently on the side of the door as she waited for him.
- Either they were humming along or tapping their feet or were drumming their fingers.
- Adrian drummed his fingers on his thighs, impatient and nervous.
- Mike sat at the empty seat next to me and drummed his fingers on the table looking extremely bored.
- I quickly dialed the number and impatiently drummed my fingers on my bedpost as the phone rang.
- She impatiently drummed her fingers on the armrests and stared down her nose as the girl limped forward.
- I was there a minute or two, just tapped my feet nervously and drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to some unknown beat.
Synonyms tap, beat, rap, knock, strike, thud, thump, hit tattoo, thrum - 1.3 (of a woodpecker) strike the bill rapidly on a dead trunk or branch, especially as a sound indicating a territorial claim.
two greater spotted woodpeckers were drumming Example sentencesExamples - On Jan. 27, searchers recorded pairs of loud raps, as if a huge woodpecker were drumming on a hollow tree.
- Great-spotted woodpeckers drum while chiffchaffs, blackcaps, chaffinches and wrens sing their hearts out.
- I listened to great spotted woodpeckers drumming on the trunks of trees.
- Woodpeckers are drumming, sparrows are singing, and around the North Shore people are venturing out into their yards to garden.
- They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming.
- 1.4 (of a snipe) vibrate the outer tail feathers in a diving display flight, making a throbbing sound.
snipe should now be drumming all round the reserve Example sentencesExamples - A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
- The male takes no part in incubation, continuing drumming displays over the nesting territory.
- The next morning, drumming snipe provide my wake-up call, and, in soft sunshine, I wander down to the shore.
- Other breeding waders include 19 drumming snipe, 3 pairs of dunlin and 4 pairs of ringed plover.
2Australian NZ dated, informal with object Give (someone) reliable information or a warning. I'm drumming you, if they come I'm going Example sentencesExamples - Jesus, don't bite me, son, I was only gonna drum you.
Phrases beat (or bang) the drum of (or for) Be ostentatiously in support of. he bangs the drum of the free market Example sentencesExamples - And I'll continue to beat the drum for those companies and agencies brave enough to push the proverbial envelope.
- Tom Wilson will keep banging the drum for Prestwick regardless of what happens this week.
- They should be… balancing their coverage, not banging the drum for one side or the other.
- What we have here, not unexpectedly, is a publisher banging the drum for his book.
- Eyre certainly suffers his share of trials, however, and is often exhausted by the constant pressure of banging the drum for subsidised theatre.
- Now we have to got to beat the drum of English Heritage.
- While Hewitt bangs the drum for Edinburgh, he lives in Glasgow's west end.
- She said: ‘It is absolutely vital we have an assembly with political clout which can bang the drum for the region over transport.’
- Deputy chair of Scottish Enterprise, he bangs the drum for business formation, pushing resources into the best growth prospects.
- Mr Baker added: ‘People do knock Bradford, there is a lot of doom- and gloom-mongering, but we are banging the drum for the city.’
Make (someone) learn something by constant repetition. they keep drumming this point home Example sentencesExamples - Fire fighters are hoping three incidents in South Norwood over the weekend will drum home the message behind their latest kitchen fire safety campaign.
- Now the Health and Safety Executive is trying to drum home the message that forward planning is essential to ensuring safety.
- The lecture includes nearly an hour of shocking statistics drumming home the need for this massive transformation.
- Video clips of disaffected youths and single mums, drug addicts and alcoholics played on an almost continuous loop, as the message was drummed home.
- Ms Harman said it was vital to drum home the message that violence at home would not be tolerated or go unpunished.
informal usually with negative(of a racehorse) perform as predicted. last year's winner didn't run a drum Example sentencesExamples - "Racehorses, I'm talkin' about. If 'e's with the tail-enders, 'e never run a drum."
- With his next mount he drove to the lead, I suspect out of sheer frustration, and didn't run a drum.
- The only horses that did anything, ended up winning, while the others didn't run a drum.
- He'll run a drum today, or I'm no judge.
- Helmet of course didn't run a drum, and the $26 rank outsider, Pinker Pinker got up to win the race.
Phrasal Verbs Make (someone) learn something by constant repetition. it had been drummed into them to dress correctly Example sentencesExamples - Somebody's got to drum some sense into that thick skull of yours.
- The manners we learn as kids are drummed into our heads by rote, much like multiplication tables.
- I've never agreed that you just play out the end of the season and I've been drumming the message into the players all week.
- Daniel watched all that and he learned from it and I drummed it into him not to make the mistakes I made.
- For drumming this lethal message into our heads media commissars are rewarded with lavish salaries, status and privilege.
- Later, talking of the need to drum instructions into players, he recalls, as he does elsewhere, a recorded message in a New York lift repeating the words ‘mind the stairs‘.
- This is far more powerful and persuasive as propaganda than anything that could be achieved by crude state power directly drumming its message into the heads of the population.
- Manchester United legend Paddy Crerand never had any careers advice - his teachers had to drag him from the football pitch to drum some education into him.
- Those words have been drummed into schoolchildren for decades.
- Some people say I'm like a parrot, because I keep trying to drum good habits into players, day after day.
Synonyms instil, drive, drive home, din, hammer, drill, drub, implant, ingrain, inculcate
Expel or dismiss someone with ignominy from a place or institution. he was drummed out of the air force Example sentencesExamples - Though she was drummed out of the service, she convinced the guards to let her have ‘one last stroll’ through the base.
- The Labour MP could be told today whether he will be drummed out of the party over his anti-war comments.
- Asked why Ford was not drummed out of the British Army Heath retorted, ‘I am not responsible for discipline in the British Army.’
- The major must wait to discover whether he will be drummed out of the British Army, pending an internal investigation, while it's probable Whittock will lose his job as well.
- I suspect he thought I intended to cut off his uniform buttons and drum him out of the service then and there.
- Many senior leaders would've screamed at the younger captain, maybe even drummed him out of the Corps for grumbling at an order.
- Born to a farming family in Howsham in 1800, he was drummed out of the community aged 15 for fathering an illegitimate child.
- The Rugby League Professionals Association has now questioned the way Tilse was drummed out of the game.
- Young Tenryu had been drummed out of the sport in the early 1930's after attempting to reform the antiquated system.
- He had been a senior chief petty officer when he was drummed out of the service for improper use of Navy resources.
Synonyms expel from, dismiss from, discharge from, throw out of, oust from
Attempt to obtain something by canvassing or soliciting. the organizers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses Example sentencesExamples - Critics say the federal alcohol agents are exaggerating the problem to drum up publicity and financial backing.
- He will take to the airwaves this morning to drum up support for Clarke.
- We are launching it on the market this week and hope that it drums up interest in the property.
- At first I thought Steve had conjured up the entire brouhaha to drum up publicity, but no.
- Maybe it was really an effort to drum up business among our fellow northerners.
- Two Swindon musicians have decided to drum up business doing what they do best.
- Very little prior knowledge is needed to read this book - but I do presuppose some interest on the part of the reader rather than trying to drum it up myself.
- He could drum up the support of the municipal council for the trailblazing idea.
- "She could just be here to drum up business, " he said.
- Training was revolutionised and Hayes worked relentlessly on drumming up enthusiasm for the team around the county.
- He said that once sufficient public support was drummed up, the organization would file a class action suit against the government if it continued to refuse to reverse its policy.
Synonyms round up, gather, collect
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch or Low German tromme, of imitative origin. Recorded from the late Middle Ages, drum is probably from Dutch or German tromme, which imitates the sound of a drumbeat. The English word may be an alteration of drumslade, from German trommelslag ‘drumbeat’. In Australia and New Zealand drum is a term for ‘a piece of reliable inside information’. The meaning dates from the early 20th century, and perhaps derives from the use of the musical instrument to give signals. The idea behind drumming up support is that of a person going around beating a drum to attract attention. We talk of someone being drummed out of a place or institution with reference to the military drumbeat that accompanied the ceremony of dismissing a soldier from a regiment. And a lesson is drummed into someone in the regular, repetitive way that a drum is beaten.
Rhymes become, benumb, Brum, bum, chum, crumb, glum, gum, ho-hum, hum, Kara Kum, lum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, Rhum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, slum, some, strum, stum, succumb, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, yum-yum nounPlural drums drʌmdrəm Irish, Scottish A long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.
Origin Early 18th century: from Scottish Gaelic and Irish druim 'ridge'. nounPlural drums drʌmdrəm A fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters. Family Sciaenidae (the drum family): many species, including the black drum (Pogonias cromis) of the western Atlantic. The drum family also includes the mulloway and a number of marine fishes that resemble salmon (e.g. the weakfish) Also called croaker Example sentencesExamples - The bay was sandy-green with marginal visibility but clarity was not a major issue because drum primarily are scent feeders.
noundrəmdrəm 1A percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends. Example sentencesExamples - The ancient sound of African djembe drums can be heard outside office towers and health centers across the world.
- Another work along the same lines is Curse Upon Iron, which replaces the bass drum with a shaman drum and adds female voices to the choir.
- The teacher gave each kid a rhythm instrument to play - drums, cymbals, sticks, and so on.
- Here they are replaced with thin crackling snares and pounding tribal bass drums.
- A lambeg drum is an enormous instrument beaten with great enthusiasm by orange marching bands.
- So what about percussion instruments: drums, cymbals, tympani - can they express emotion too?
- Before that, he played the bass drum in his high school marching band.
- The gloomy gothic mood of the background sounds serves the metallic drums and dark vocals, contributing to make this song a rather unsettling moment.
- In the first-aid room, I come across Evans helping four children to find the scariest way to suggest the presence of a lurking Minotaur using drums, cymbals and sticks.
- And the third setting is just right for recording louder sound sources such as drums or percussion instruments.
- Beninese also make a wide range of handmade instruments, from twin drums to small Beninese guitars.
- Protesters moved in groups of 40 to 50 amid whirring sirens and beating drums.
- Sitting in the midst of an array of flutes of all sizes, large drums and other musical instruments, this old man was trying to get our attention for the longest time.
- The resulting album is a pleasant mix of guitars and drums, with electronic sounds, that is headed up by a strong vocal performer.
- James was fond of percussion that didn't even pretend to sound like real drums.
- Each track seems to be accented with an exotic instrument like the Indian drum, bass conga, Moroccan clay drums, and the wah-wah bass.
- The Korean fans are banging drums and urging their team on with even more vigour.
- And people are being urged to take along drums or makeshift percussion instruments - even dustbins - to give the extravaganza a resounding boost.
- After the likes of such instruments as guitars, drums, bass guitar, and harmonica, the band whipped out the allusive Australian didgeridoo.
- At such high speeds, priorities invert; the drums become the lead instrument.
- 1.1drums A set of drums.
Example sentencesExamples - Holland's ruthless energy on the drums summed up the band as a whole; relentless, on form, and obviously enjoying themselves.
- What's instantly impressive is just how much mayhem the band can bring to the table with just a piano and drums.
- I grew up playing music with my brother - I played drums and he played guitar mostly rock stuff.
- On top of writing and producing the thing, he played every instrument - guitar, drums, piano, bass, you-name-it.
- Almost overlooked on drums, Josh provides the support for Billy to discharge the chords, and Cooper to rifle her bass.
- Now they are back with a new name and a new line-up featuring Russell on drums and percussion, Daniel as singer/songwriter and Chris Clapton, 24, on bass.
- This is Chris, his home computer, a guitar, some second hand drums, and several months of late nights whilst holding down the day job.
- Courtenay Purcell came in on keyboards, Jake Gladman on bass, and Mike Roberts completed the rhythm section on drums.
- Finlay's band includes locals Cory Papirny on drums and bassist Chris Brzezicki.
- Dan took control of virtually all the instruments in the studio, although his brother was brought in to play drums.
- Zak Starkey, a Beatle once-removed, plays drums on this latest offering.
- There might be the odd guitar and battered amplifier, even a set of sixties drums to give a struggling band genuine credibility but no synth band was ever going to start in our school.
- A set of drums, suspended cymbals, and other percussion instruments forming the basic equipment of the jazz, rock, and dance-band drummer.
- I played drums in little combos at school, then from the age of 13 or 14, with some of the local country bands around the town of Lubbock.
- A lot of people don't know that both Keith and I did drums.
- He took care of the songwriting, vocals, and guitar playing, and two local musicians contributed on bass and drums.
- The house band, featuring Phil Collins on drums and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, will accompany the concert.
- We then took a break for a few months and played our next gig nine months later, this time as a four piece with Tom on rhythm guitar and Martin on drums.
- Throughout, he's ably abetted by a crack team of session musicians, including ace jazzer Bill Frisell on guitar and Jim Keltner on drums.
- David's favorite percussion instrument was the drums.
- 1.2drums The percussion section of a band or orchestra.
Example sentencesExamples - Inside the car, the hundred megaton speakers may be transmitting the unique sound of some howling pop star with an ululating mouth harp and a back-up band, heavy on drums.
- Intensity and loudness increases by the middle of the movement, with some sharp attacks by the strings, with drums and syncopated rhythms.
- Jazz bands without drums or bass oblige the remaining participants to be extremely industrious.
- Harmonies come courtesy of three male singers while the percussion, bass and drums ensure the sound is wrapped in the rhythms of their Guinean ancestors.
- The staples are represented - alto and soprano sax, bass, drums, woodwinds, piano, and, to a lesser extent, the clarinet and some vocals.
- While the 72nd Sutton Music Festival will benefit from a grant of £300 to enable organisers to set up a new section for drums and keyboard musicians.
- 1.3in singular A sound made by or resembling that of a drum.
Example sentencesExamples - To the drum of a coxswain, international member paddlers of the Shanghai Shang Long Dragon Boat Team press forward on Dianshan Lake.
- Beyond the sound of their chit-chat you sense the sonorous vibe of the African bush - from the hum of mosquito through the drum of cicada to the snorts of the hippos - closing in.
- She heard the tin whistle begin, and without even realising she was doing it, began tapping her feet to the ever-present drum.
Synonyms beat, rhythm, patter, tap, chatter, pounding, thump, thumping, thud, thudding, rattle, rattling, pitter-patter, rat-a-tat, pit-a-pat, thrum, tattoo, vibration, throb, throbbing, pulsation - 1.4historical A military drummer.
2A cylindrical container or receptacle. See also oil drum Example sentencesExamples - Though barrels may be close to extinct, companies still ship some oil in 55-gallon steel drums.
- There's more to a chemical or biological weapons program than rusting drums and pieces of munitions.
- The people who have been on the coast the longest are entitled to more water, and those who are newcomers only have the right to one drum, and that has to last two weeks.
- The water is transferred from gutters into black 55-gallon drums via garden hoses, which allows me to switch from one drum to another with ease.
- Research in collaboration with Peugeot has developed propulsion units rather like hamsters running inside a drum.
- Tests on a 55-gallon drum came up positive for mustard gas.
- The mangoes that my parents had picked from outside their window had ripened inside the rice drum.
- Documents found inside some of the drums, identified the actual sources of the waste - small and medium-size firms from the Veneto region of Italy.
- I landed just on the edge of the very last fuel drum.
- Then, overnight, completely saturate it by placing it in a soaking vessel such as an old bathtub or an open-topped metal drum.
- Inside the drum's body is a padlocked hatch into which the money falls.
- As well as 580 litres in the tanks they will carry about 600 litres in drums inside the vehicle: this is certainly no Smart car.
- After washing the reel, rinse it off in clean water then thoroughly dry the reel, taking special care of the inside of the drum and the drag area.
- What tends to happen is that the cords find their way into the rotating drum inside the body of the plane.
- He thought something was strange as he looked inside the drums, but had no idea of the hazard as he filled up his backpack sprayer.
- But staff giving evidence said they would stand inside a large rotating drum to clean the slowly-moving rollers with an air hose.
- The cigarettes, with a retail value of £350,000, were found inside drums of pine resin in a container that had arrived in Britain through Dover.
- Inside the bottomless drum are mixed items waiting to be sorted, treasures waiting to be uncovered.
- I guess they figure if you have room enough to store a 55-gallon drum of mayonnaise, well, you have the space to store a coffin until needed.
- Inside these are drums for the mine tether cables that would have been attached to mines resting in the bowl-shaped indentation on the upper side of the trolley.
Synonyms canister, barrel, cylinder, tank, bin, can - 2.1 A rotating cylindrical part in a washing machine, in which the laundry is placed.
Example sentencesExamples - Mohsan likened clock speeds to the RPM's of washing machine drums.
- In 2000 the Contrarotator was launched, the world's first washing machine with two rotating drums.
- Our baits were stored in large metal washing machine drums that we had shipped out specifically for the purpose, this kept them in superb condition.
- Sometimes dye will come off new blue jeans and dry on the inside of the dryer drum, and then transfer to the next batch of wet clothes put inside.
- Good to check dryer drum after load of brand new jeans.
- Instead they may show excessive interest in repetitive activities, such as lining up their toys or watching the washing machine drum rotate for an extended period of time.
- If dead radio stations have graves, GLR must be spinning like a washing machine's drum right now.
- 2.2 A cylindrical part in certain other appliances.
Example sentencesExamples - The lamps were arranged vertically on the circumference of a drum around which the samples rotated at a distance of 3.5 cm.
- Rotating drums can be tilted forward or backward, hydraulically, to adjust for litter condition.
- The other side piece is located between the crank shaft and the drum, which rotate relative to each other.
- The drum rotates as one moves the pedals, like in a bicycle.
- A direct-drive gearbox rotates the drum without the use of external gears.
- In drum sanders the sandpaper is mounted on a cylindrical drum that rotates on an axis parallel to the plane of the floor.
- The drum was constantly rotated at 30 rpm. Each fly was placed in the middle arm of a T-shaped glass tube.
- They were standard gun-tanks fitted with rotating drums driven off their engines, from which weighted chains flailed paths through minefields.
- 2.3Architecture The circular vertical wall supporting a dome.
Example sentencesExamples - Foster and Partners' solution was to clad the circular drum with limestone to match the courtyard walls.
- The roof spans from the four sides of the quadrangle onto a new ring of 20 columns that surround the reading room's drum and are concealed by its new smooth stone skin.
- Sydney's brick drum, which was never intended to be seen from the outside, is being given a Portland stone skin.
- These columns are concealed by the new limestone cladding surrounding the entire drum of the Reading Room.
- Portions of this platform could then be removed in stages to allow the drum of the dome to be constructed through the platform.
- It is given dynamism by a big brick drum which contains the main lecture theatre, and Is positioned asymmetrically to ensure that the space does not become rigid.
- 2.4Architecture A stone block forming part of a column.
Example sentencesExamples - The Corinthian pronaos surmounted by a drum in Juvarra's design for the facade was only added in the 19th century.
- Today several column drums and capitals are to be found in GD 80.
3An evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century.
verbdrəmdrəm [no object]1Play a drum or drums. Example sentencesExamples - Also, you'll hear bongo drumming and readings from Feynman's popular books.
- They work at festivals, so there are lots of people that can help out with drumming and energy work while they do their thing.
- Also, surprising to me, was the skill and energy of Torry Castellano's drumming.
- It was the travelling that brought an end to the original John Barry Seven, said Mr Golder, who still drums in a concert band.
- Evening classes for adults take place on Monday and Wednesday for beginner and advanced fiddle and guitar, and on Tuesday and Thursday for choir, handbells and drumming.
- This was the real deal too - none of your tourist queso malarkey, just a bunch of locals sitting around, strumming and drumming and clapping and singing.
- Samantha, you started drumming when you were 12?
- The energy from the land was invigorating and there was drumming in the near distance that added to the ambiance.
- And Grohl's drumming on the album is exceptional, as well.
- Workshops also took place in St Sampson's Square and King's Square, including children's face mask painting, drumming, music and samba dancing.
- When he is not soaring off into the sunset, he can be found drumming in the band Absent Friends.
- There's wild drumming throughout, and though it'll test your patience from time to time, the whole of the CD is wrapped up in 30 minutes give or take.
- The festival would not be complete without the ancient art of Taiko drumming.
- Reitzell, who drums with Air, warns me during my nail-biting wait that Shields tends to work all night and sleep all day and never answers his phone.
- Not a success at school, he drifted from job to job before following his mother into drumming as a career.
- Both performances drew heavily on Melanesian sounds - interspersed with high energy chanting, drumming and dancing.
- On a weekly basis the programme consists of samba drumming, guitar and dance.
- Luke's hobbies include karate, in which he has a yellow belt, motorcycling - his parents bought him a motorbike for his 16th birthday - and drumming.
- The first two are rather general, because my work comprises more than writing and editing: I also get income from drumming and sometimes from photography.
- The masters of Japan's traditional and contemporary taiko drumming combine physical performance and incredible musicianship.
- 1.1 Make a continuous rhythmic noise.
she felt the blood drumming in her ears hooves drummed on the turf Example sentencesExamples - It was the sort of day when you want to stay indoors but you have to go out shopping anyway, ending up in the supermarket listening to the rain drumming on the roof of the store.
- The heavy rain drummed against the windows rhythmically, making dark music that only the heartbroken could enjoy.
- As the clock strikes eight an enormous din breaks out, with prisoners banging, shouting and drumming on doors.
- Ellin could hear her heart-beat drumming madly in her ears.
- She was quite content to sit on the sofa and listen to the rhythmic pattern of the autumn rain drumming on the metal roof of the shed.
- As evening approached, the rain persisted, streaking the windowpanes and drumming rhythmically against the rooftop.
- Out of the silence came a low hum that started soft and grew in volume until it filled everything around it, a pulsating beat that drummed with a steady rhythm.
- Her voice was quaking, panicked in a way that sent my blood drumming in my ears.
- Suddenly he could hear his heartbeat drumming in his ears, muffling out the rest of the surrounding clatter.
- With the rain drumming on the roof, I was transported to the African bush.
- He had natural rhythm and he'd drum on pots and pans.
- Only one set of hooves drummed behind him, muffled somewhat by the snow.
- Jean said: ‘He started drumming on plastic buckets on the lawn when he was about two.’
- The twins continued sitting there, their hearts drumming anxiously.
- She hadn't been this close to him in a long time, so close she could hear his heart drumming by her ear, feel the rhythm of his breathing.
- A soft rumble of thunder rolled from the sky and the rain began to quicken, drumming on the roof in a strange, oddly comforting rhythm.
- Alex drummed on the table with his thumbs, and then looked up at his troubled friend.
- My heart drumming in my ears, I was still too shocked to move.
- I woke up to the sound of rain drumming on the roof.
- Hooves drummed against the packed earth and the horses raced as fast as their legs could carry them.
- 1.2with object Beat (the fingers, feet, etc.) repeatedly on a surface, especially as a sign of impatience or annoyance.
waiting around an empty table, drumming their fingers Example sentencesExamples - Waiting to be served a beer, Tom Fiore drums his fingers impatiently on the polished countertop.
- She drummed her fingers impatiently against the smooth surface of the table, eyes watching the baristas as they made drink after drink.
- He drummed the fingers of his free hand against the counter impatiently.
- He scowled at the computer screen in front of him, drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently.
- Karl put away the cleaning supplies and walked over to sit next to the phone, staring at it while drumming his fingers repeatedly on the desk.
- I was there a minute or two, just tapped my feet nervously and drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to some unknown beat.
- Either they were humming along or tapping their feet or were drumming their fingers.
- Absentmindedly I tapped my foot and drummed my fingers.
- Ava sat on the edge of the bed, twirling her hair around her fingers, and Damien drummed his feet against the headboard.
- She ordered a white wine from a passing waiter, drumming her fingers on the table restlessly.
- She impatiently drummed her fingers on the armrests and stared down her nose as the girl limped forward.
- Mike sat at the empty seat next to me and drummed his fingers on the table looking extremely bored.
- She fidgeted constantly, tapping her foot, drumming her fingers on her leg, or plucking at her newly straightened hair.
- He drummed his fingers impatiently on her desk awaiting an answer.
- The girl held a small, black cell phone to her ear and listened to a dial tone, drumming her fingers impatiently.
- She started the car and pulled into Andreas' driveway, drumming her fingers impatiently on the side of the door as she waited for him.
- Adrian drummed his fingers on his thighs, impatient and nervous.
- Paige drummed her fingers impatiently against her thighs, tapping her foot against the floor of the car.
- Kiara waited for a reply, drumming her fingers on the railing of the stairs impatiently.
- I quickly dialed the number and impatiently drummed my fingers on my bedpost as the phone rang.
Synonyms tap, beat, rap, knock, strike, thud, thump, hit - 1.3 (of a woodpecker) strike the bill rapidly on a dead trunk or branch, especially as a sound indicating a territorial claim.
Example sentencesExamples - They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming.
- On Jan. 27, searchers recorded pairs of loud raps, as if a huge woodpecker were drumming on a hollow tree.
- Woodpeckers are drumming, sparrows are singing, and around the North Shore people are venturing out into their yards to garden.
- I listened to great spotted woodpeckers drumming on the trunks of trees.
- Great-spotted woodpeckers drum while chiffchaffs, blackcaps, chaffinches and wrens sing their hearts out.
- 1.4 (of a snipe) vibrate the outer tail feathers in a diving display flight, making a throbbing sound.
Example sentencesExamples - Other breeding waders include 19 drumming snipe, 3 pairs of dunlin and 4 pairs of ringed plover.
- The next morning, drumming snipe provide my wake-up call, and, in soft sunshine, I wander down to the shore.
- A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
- The male takes no part in incubation, continuing drumming displays over the nesting territory.
Phrases beat (or bang) the drum for (or against) Be ostentatiously in support of (or in opposition to) he limited campaign contributions in order to beat the drum against political action committees he bangs the drum of the free market Example sentencesExamples - Deputy chair of Scottish Enterprise, he bangs the drum for business formation, pushing resources into the best growth prospects.
- She said: ‘It is absolutely vital we have an assembly with political clout which can bang the drum for the region over transport.’
- And I'll continue to beat the drum for those companies and agencies brave enough to push the proverbial envelope.
- Now we have to got to beat the drum of English Heritage.
- While Hewitt bangs the drum for Edinburgh, he lives in Glasgow's west end.
- What we have here, not unexpectedly, is a publisher banging the drum for his book.
- Tom Wilson will keep banging the drum for Prestwick regardless of what happens this week.
- Eyre certainly suffers his share of trials, however, and is often exhausted by the constant pressure of banging the drum for subsidised theatre.
- They should be… balancing their coverage, not banging the drum for one side or the other.
- Mr Baker added: ‘People do knock Bradford, there is a lot of doom- and gloom-mongering, but we are banging the drum for the city.’
Phrasal Verbs Drive a lesson into (someone) by constant repetition. it had been drummed into them to dress correctly Example sentencesExamples - Later, talking of the need to drum instructions into players, he recalls, as he does elsewhere, a recorded message in a New York lift repeating the words ‘mind the stairs‘.
- Manchester United legend Paddy Crerand never had any careers advice - his teachers had to drag him from the football pitch to drum some education into him.
- This is far more powerful and persuasive as propaganda than anything that could be achieved by crude state power directly drumming its message into the heads of the population.
- Somebody's got to drum some sense into that thick skull of yours.
- The manners we learn as kids are drummed into our heads by rote, much like multiplication tables.
- Daniel watched all that and he learned from it and I drummed it into him not to make the mistakes I made.
- For drumming this lethal message into our heads media commissars are rewarded with lavish salaries, status and privilege.
- Those words have been drummed into schoolchildren for decades.
- Some people say I'm like a parrot, because I keep trying to drum good habits into players, day after day.
- I've never agreed that you just play out the end of the season and I've been drumming the message into the players all week.
Synonyms instil, drive, drive home, din, hammer, drill, drub, implant, ingrain, inculcate
Expel or dismiss someone with ignominy from a place or institution. he was drummed out of the air force Example sentencesExamples - Many senior leaders would've screamed at the younger captain, maybe even drummed him out of the Corps for grumbling at an order.
- The Labour MP could be told today whether he will be drummed out of the party over his anti-war comments.
- Young Tenryu had been drummed out of the sport in the early 1930's after attempting to reform the antiquated system.
- He had been a senior chief petty officer when he was drummed out of the service for improper use of Navy resources.
- Though she was drummed out of the service, she convinced the guards to let her have ‘one last stroll’ through the base.
- Asked why Ford was not drummed out of the British Army Heath retorted, ‘I am not responsible for discipline in the British Army.’
- I suspect he thought I intended to cut off his uniform buttons and drum him out of the service then and there.
- The Rugby League Professionals Association has now questioned the way Tilse was drummed out of the game.
- The major must wait to discover whether he will be drummed out of the British Army, pending an internal investigation, while it's probable Whittock will lose his job as well.
- Born to a farming family in Howsham in 1800, he was drummed out of the community aged 15 for fathering an illegitimate child.
Synonyms expel from, dismiss from, discharge from, throw out of, oust from
Attempt to obtain something by canvassing or soliciting. the organizers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses Example sentencesExamples - Maybe it was really an effort to drum up business among our fellow northerners.
- Training was revolutionised and Hayes worked relentlessly on drumming up enthusiasm for the team around the county.
- He will take to the airwaves this morning to drum up support for Clarke.
- "She could just be here to drum up business, " he said.
- Critics say the federal alcohol agents are exaggerating the problem to drum up publicity and financial backing.
- He could drum up the support of the municipal council for the trailblazing idea.
- We are launching it on the market this week and hope that it drums up interest in the property.
- Very little prior knowledge is needed to read this book - but I do presuppose some interest on the part of the reader rather than trying to drum it up myself.
- He said that once sufficient public support was drummed up, the organization would file a class action suit against the government if it continued to refuse to reverse its policy.
- Two Swindon musicians have decided to drum up business doing what they do best.
- At first I thought Steve had conjured up the entire brouhaha to drum up publicity, but no.
Synonyms round up, gather, collect
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch or Low German tromme, of imitative origin. noundrəmdrəm Irish, Scottish A long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.
Origin Early 18th century: from Scottish Gaelic and Irish druim ‘ridge’. noundrəmdrəm A fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters. Family Sciaenidae (the drum family): many species, including the black drum (Pogonias cromis) of the western Atlantic. The drum family also includes the mulloway and a number of marine fishes that resemble salmon (e.g. the weakfish) Also called croaker Example sentencesExamples - The bay was sandy-green with marginal visibility but clarity was not a major issue because drum primarily are scent feeders.
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