Drum

[drʌm]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise.

(noun.) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.

(noun.) a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids.

(noun.) the sound of a drum; 'he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes'.

(verb.) play a percussion instrument.

(verb.) make a rhythmic sound; 'Rain drummed against the windshield'; 'The drums beat all night'.

錄入:尼科尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form

(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

(n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.

(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

(n.) See Drumfish.

(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

(n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

(v. i.) To throb, as the heart.

(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

校對:沃尔多

同義詞及近義詞：

n. (Anat.) Tympanum.

塞西莉亚校對

解釋/意思:

n. a small hill or ridge of hills used in many place-names as Drumglass Drumsheugh &c.

n. an instrument of percussion in which a skin of parchment stretched on a frame of wood or metal is beaten with an instrument called a drumstick: anything shaped like a drum: the tympanum or middle portion of the ear: (archit.) the upright part of a cupola: (mech.) a revolving cylinder: formerly a large and tumultuous evening party (said to be so called because rival hostesses vied with each other in beating up crowds of guests).—v.i. to beat a drum: to beat with the fingers.—v.t. to drum out to expel: to summon:—pr.p. drum′ming; pa.p. drummed.—ns. Drum′head the head of a drum (see Court-martial): the top part of a capstan; Drum′-mā′jor the chief drummer of a regiment (now called sergeant-drummer); Drum′mer one who drums: (U.S.) a commercial traveller; Drum′stick the stick with which the drum is beat: the leg of a cooked fowl.

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