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drum [n]

1)	a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

Synonyms :

membranophone tympan

See Also:

percussion_instrument bass_drum bongo drumhead side_drum tabor tambour tambourine tenor_drum timbrel

2)	the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

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sound

3)	a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Synonyms :

barrel

See Also:

cylinder

4)	a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

Synonyms :

metal_drum

See Also:

vessel

5)	a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

Synonyms :

brake_drum

See Also:

cylinder drum_brake

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

Synonyms :

drumfish

drum [v]

1)	make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

Synonyms :

beat thrum

See Also:

go beat drummer beat

2)	play a percussion instrument

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play music drummer drumming

3)	study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

Synonyms :

bone bone_up cram get_up grind_away mug_up swot swot_up

See Also:

hit_the_books dweeb crammer crammer cram

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on newbies.

See also "The Story of Mel".

(1994-12-22)

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