Crossword-Solution: DRUM
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| Drum | 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. |
| Drum | n. | Anything resembling a drum in form |
| Drum | 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. |
| Drum | n. | A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
| Drum | n. | The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane. |
| Drum | 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. |
| Drum | 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. |
| Drum | n. | See Drumfish. |
| Drum | n. | A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. |
| Drum | n. | A tea party; a kettledrum. |
| Drum | v. i. | To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. |
| 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. |
| Drum | v. i. | To throb, as the heart. |
| Drum | v. i. | To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. |
| Drum | v. t. | To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
| Drum | v. t. | (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. |
| Drum | 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. |
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Sentences with DRUM (5)
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him.
But we could thank ye for a tune, if ye bain’t too tired?” “Neither drum nor trumpet have I heard this Christmas,” said Jan Coggan.
The Martians had what appears to have been an auditory organ, a single round drum at the back of the head-body, and eyes with a visual range not very different from ours except that, according to Philips, blue and violet were as black to them.
The firm manufactured the LGP-30, a small, cheap (by the standards of the day) drum-memory computer, and had just started to manufacture the RPC-4000, a much-improved, bigger, better, faster --- drum-memory computer.
They always spoke of Hardy as “the Martyr,” and every little while they moved through the principal street in procession—at midnight, black-robed, masked, to the measured tap of the solemn drum—on pilgrimage to the Martyr’s grave, where they went through with some majestic fooleries and swore vengeance upon his murderers.
Quotes with DRUM (3)
But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 243 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).