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Synonyms for drum
drʌmdrum
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Princeton's WordNet
drum, membranophone, tympannoun
a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
Synonyms:
brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drumdrumnoun
the sound of a drum
"he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
Synonyms:
brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drumbarrel, drumnoun
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
Synonyms:
membranophone, bbl, brake drum, metal drum, drumfish, cask, gun barrel, tympan, barrelful, barreldrum, metal drumnoun
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
Synonyms:
brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drumbrake drum, drumnoun
a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
Synonyms:
drumfish, tympan, membranophone, metal drum, barrel, brake drumdrum, drumfishverb
small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
Synonyms:
brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drumdrum, beat, thrumverb
make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
Synonyms:
baffle, exhaust, stupefy, circumvent, stick, strum, crush, vanquish, get, bone up, mystify, outfox, flummox, beat, outwit, hum, tick, nonplus, trounce, grind away, beat up, bunk, swot up, tucker out, flap, mug up, beat out, dumbfound, gravel, swot, thump, ticktack, amaze, thrum, work over, overreach, ticktock, puzzle, quiver, get up, pound, bone, pulsate, cram, bewilder, perplex, tucker, vex, wash up, outsmart, pose, scramble, shelldrumverb
play a percussion instrument
Synonyms:
grind away, cram, thrum, mug up, swot up, get up, bone up, bone, beat, swotcram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, boneverb
study intensively, as before an exam
"I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
Synonyms:
prink, rise, prepare, stand up, bone up, ram, fancy up, deck out, elevate, uprise, jam, trick up, rig out, tog up, grind away, lift, deck up, arise, swot up, gussy up, mug up, attire, dress up, swot, tog out, organise, beat, thrum, chock up, wad, raise, work up, trick out, get up, bone, turn out, cram, bring up, devise, fig out, organize, jampack, overdress, debone, machinate, fig up
Editors Contribution
harlem
a circular instrument.
"i can't play the drum, only the guitar!"
Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
drumnoun
Synonyms:
(Anat.) tympanum
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
drum
Synonyms:
Tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica [NA6], eardrum§
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#77 | get | |
#2703 | rise | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3213 | ram | |
#3387 | stick | |
#3551 | raise | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#3616 | shell | |
#4053 | bone | |
#4499 | lift | |
#4785 | puzzle | |
#4807 | drum | |
#4910 | pound | |
#5259 | jam | |
#6951 | drums | |
#7087 | arise | |
#7393 | exhaust | |
#7411 | organize | |
#8375 | barrel | |
#9747 | pose | |
#10852 | tick | |
#11033 | tucker | |
#12398 | crush | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#13658 | hum | |
#14613 | flap | |
#14647 | drummer | |
#16660 | organise | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#20641 | attire | |
#22251 | devise | |
#24832 | scramble | |
#27084 | drumming | |
#27607 | cram | |
#29876 | elevate | |
#30103 | amaze | |
#33785 | bbl | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#34324 | keg | |
#36659 | wad | |
#37689 | drummers | |
#40245 | cask | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#41588 | thump | |
#43658 | quiver | |
#44923 | swot | |
#54523 | vex | |
#57646 | vanquish | |
#64091 | strum | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#95211 | perplex | |
#96168 | tambor | |
#107725 | capstan | |
#112496 | mystify | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#177091 | pulsate | |
#207890 | uprise | |
#211488 | thrum | |
#224053 | bewilder | |
#231038 | kwu | |
#273151 | jampack |
How to use drum in a sentence?
He couldn't fit in the drum, they couldn't fit him in the drum feet first. He couldn't get the legs to bend right, so he had to take him out and put him in head first.
Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales)
Obviously it is election season and the press has been focused on debates and divisions they can drum up within the primary and within our party, and I'm not worried about this party staying united.
Trump is using this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum and is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.
There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.
Translations for drum
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- dromAfrikaans
- tamborAragonese
- طَبَلَ, طبلةArabic
- барабанBashkir
- барабанBelarusian
- тъпан, барабан, варел, бия барабан, набивам, барабаняBulgarian
- taboulinBreton
- tambor, barril, tamborinejarCatalan, Valencian
- buben, barel, bubnovatCzech
- tønde, tromle, tromme, bankeDanish
- Trommel, Fass, trommeln, einbläuen, einpaukenGerman
- ʋu, ƒo ʋuEwe
- τύμπανο, βαρέλι, τυμπανίζωGreek
- tambor, bidón, cilindro, barril, inculcar, recalcar, tamborearSpanish
- danborBasque
- طبل, تمبکPersian
- pönttö, tynnyri, rumpu, rummuttaa, takoa, paukuttaaFinnish
- tonneau, tambour, bidon, batterie, baril, cylindreFrench
- trommeWestern Frisian
- tamborGalician
- תוף, לתופףHebrew
- droumHaitian Creole
- dob, hordó, henger, belesulykol, dobolHungarian
- տակառ, թմբուկ, թմբկահարելArmenian
- tromla, tromma, berjaIcelandic
- batteria, bidoneItalian
- ドラム, 太鼓Japanese
- დოლიGeorgian
- تهپڵ, دهوڵKurdish
- TrommLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- būgnasLithuanian
- bungasLatvian
- taramuMāori
- валјак, тапан, барабан, буре, удира на тапан, чукаMacedonian
- бөмбөрMongolian
- gendang, bergendangMalay
- trommeNorwegian
- trom, vat, drum, trommelDutch
- trommeNorwegian Nynorsk
- ଢାପOriya
- beczka, bęben, bębnićPolish
- tambor, barril, batucarPortuguese
- tobăRomanian
- барабан, бочка, барабанить, вдалбливать, [[бить]] [[в]] [[барабан]]Russian
- bubanj, бубањ, doboš, добош, ваљак, bačva, бачва, bure, буре, valjak, бубњати, куцати, kucati, bubnjatiSerbo-Croatian
- bubonSlovak
- boben, bobnatiSlovene
- ngomaShona
- durbaanSomali
- sí-gúbhuSouthern Sotho
- trummaSwedish
- ngomaSwahili
- deprekTurkmen
- tambolTagalog
- барабанUkrainian
- do'mbraUzbek
- trốngVietnamese
- cilinde, tabeurWalloon
- פּויקYiddish
- isigubhuZulu
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