DICTOMETER

DRUMS

(drum, bidón, tambor, tromme, trommel)

1. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   • Membranophone
   • Tympan
   Definitions:
   • a musical percussion instrument
   • usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   Definitions:
   • the sound of a drum
   Examples:
   • He could hear the drums before he heard the fifes
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Barrel
   • Drum
   Definitions:
   • a bulging cylindrical shape
   • hollow with flat ends
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   • Metal drum
   Definitions:
   • a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Brake drum
   • Drum
   Definitions:
   • a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   • Drumfish
   Definitions:
   • small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   • Beat
   • Thrum
   Definitions:
   • make a rhythmic sound
   Examples:
   • Rain drummed against the windshield
   • The drums beat all night
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Drum
   Definitions:
   • play a percussion instrument
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Cram
   • Grind away
   • Drum
   • Bone up
   • Swot
   • Get up
   • Mug up
   • Swot up
   • Bone
   Definitions:
   • study intensively, as before an exam
   Examples:
   • I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam