Drum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRUM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to beat a percussion instrument
• play on a drum
• make a continuous rhythmic noise
• beat (the fingers, feet, etc.) repeatedly on a surface, especially as a sign of impatience or annoyance
• (of a woodpecker) strike the bill rapidly on a dead trunk or branch, especially as a sound indicating a territorial claim
• (of a snipe) vibrate the outer tail feathers in a diving display flight, making a throbbing sound
• give (someone) reliable information or a warning
• To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
• 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.
• To throb, as the heart.
• To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
• To execute on a drum, as a tune.
• (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
• (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.
• make a rhythmic sound
• play a percussion instrument
• study intensively, as before an exam
• play (music) on a drum
NOUN:
• a 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 drum kit
• the percussion section of a band or orchestra.
• a sound made by or resembling that of a drum
• a military drummer.
• a cylindrical container or receptacle
• a rotating cylindrical part in a washing machine, in which the washing is placed.
• a cylindrical part in certain other appliances.
• the circular vertical wall supporting a dome.
• a stone block forming part of a column.
• a house or flat.
• an evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century
• a piece of reliable inside information
• a long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.
• a fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters.
• 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.
• Anything resembling a drum in form
• 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.
• A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
• The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
• 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.
• 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.
• See Drumfish.
• A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
• A tea party; a kettledrum.
• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
• the sound of a drum
• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
• a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
• a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
• percussion instrument
• a tramp's bundle of belongings.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to beat a drum (a percussion instrument)

Words related to DRUM

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Words that contain DRUM

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How to use DRUM in a sentence

• Taking his drum, he began to beat upon it, accompanying the music with a song.
• As the smoke arose from the burning grass, he held his drum over it, turning it from side to side, and round and round.
• Laying aside the drum, he held his hands in the smoke, and rubbed his arms and body with it.
• The whole scene worked him up and did him good, for he always loves to have his Southern friends drum him up and talk to him of your Uncle Seargent and Aunt Anna.
• These Joe had now covered over with the broken skin of the drum, to make the box water tight.
• Down in the street there are marching feet, and I hear the beat of a drum.
• The shouting of the mob, the beating of the drum was receding toward the road.
• After their marriage the happy couple lived together until the drum and trumpet gave the signal for their separation, and Claude de Verre marched to the wars with his regiment.
• Once, when I had watched him strut and drum a few times, the leaves rustled, and two hen grouse emerged from opposite sides into the little opening where his log was.
• A wire rope running over a drum at each side of the chasm which has to be crossed forms a double line of overhead railway.
• Now, on drawing near to the lamp, he found himself also approaching some heretofore unobserved source of heat, which he discovered to be a drum of sheet iron.
• The roll of the tenor drum, the shrill music of the fife, the rattle of musketry, and the booming of cannon, should be heard in the distance.
• The accompanying music should be that of the drum and fife.
• The tenor drum can be made to give out sounds to resemble volleys of musketry.
• He began to drum nervously with his fingers on the desk, and shift uneasily in his chair.
• In about two hours after Velasquez had left our camp to visit Narvaez, the drum beat to arms, and our little army set forwards on our march for Chempoalla.
• Whereupon somebody else appears, and with sound of trumpet and drum offers her his heart, and wishes for hers in return.
• Poor Drum, a man about fifty years old, lost his eyesight in a premature explosion of giant powder, in a quarry near Ocean View, on the 3rd of November 1895.
• The drum was the steering wheel, and it made enough noise, when pounded on with a stick, to pretend it was an automobile horn.
• On they came to the beat of the muffled drum, halting under a great locust-tree that stood by itself on the lawn, in sight of the library windows, like a giant sentinel.
• The music was provided by a drum, made out of an old tin box.

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