Noun | 1. | drum - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
2. | drum - the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" | |
3. | drum - a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends Synonyms: barrel | |
4. | ![]() Synonyms: metal drum | |
5. | ![]() Synonyms: brake drum | |
6. | drum - small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise Synonyms: drumfish | |
Verb | 1. | drum - make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
2. | drum - play a percussion instrument | |
3. | drum - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" |
drum - Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once
state-of-the-art storage devices. Under BSD Unix the disk
partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this
has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced
but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on newbies. See also "The Story of Mel". |