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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"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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 
    See Also: sciaenid  equetus_pulcher  equetus_lanceolatus  bairdiella_chrysoura  channel_bass 
 
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
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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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