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   drum
   A cylindrical wall which supports a dome.
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   Drum
   Any of a variety of fish named for the drumming or deep croaking noise they make. These fish are firm and low in fat. The drum family include the black croaker, black drum, hardhead, kingfish, and queenfish.
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   drum
   Waters:Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts Description (in water): The smallest members of the drum family, croakers range from 1/2 lb. to 3 lbs. They are usually silvery in color; spotfin has a pale steel-blue cast and a characteristic black spot under the pectoral fin, while yellowfin has grayish-green sides with dark wavy lines and yellow scales. Description (in market): Lean white meat that's tender and full-flavored. The skin is edible.
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   drum
   [n] - the sound of a drum 2. [n] - a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids 3. [n] - a musical percussion instrument 4. [n] - small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise 5. [v] - make a rhythmic sound 6. [v] - play the drums
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   drum
   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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   Drum
   Horizontal drum around which the ropes of a balanced incline were wound
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   drum
   a percussion instrument consisting of a parchment or skin stretched across a round frame.....may be of definite pitch(e.g.)kettledrum or of indefinite pitch(e.g.,sidedrum) Category: General • A cylinder normally flanged at both ends.When used,the rope is fixed and stored on it. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a metal container for l...
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   Drum
   either a section from a cylindrical column, or the lower part of a dome.
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   Drum
   A cylindrical or polygonal wall which supports a dome. Also called a tambour. Also used to describe the cylindrical sections of stone that make up the shaft of a column. E
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    Drum noun [ Confer Dutch trom , trommel , LG. trumme , German trommel , Danish tromme , Swedish trumma , Old High German trumba a trumpet, Icelandic pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Danish drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; probably partly at least of imitative origin; perhaps akin to English trum ...
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    Drum
    Drum intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Drummed ; present participle & verbal noun Drumming .] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. 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 ruf ...
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    Drum transitive verb 1. To execute on a drum, as a tune. 2. (With out ) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc. 3. (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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    drum
    1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. ... 2. 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. 'Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.' (W. Irving) ... 3. To throb, as the heart. ... 4. ...
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    drum
    membranophone noun a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
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    drumfish noun small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
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    drum
    noun the sound of a drum; `he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes`
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    beat verb make a rhythmic sound; `Rain drummed against the windshield`; `The drums beat all night`
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    verb play a percussion instrument
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    noun a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
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    Drum
    The `drum` is a member of the percussion group that can be large, technically classified as a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtu...
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    drum
    (drum) tympanic membrane.
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    Drum
    • (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for. • (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum. • (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. • (v...
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    (from the article `African literature`) ...medium of protest; among the most successful writers were Bloke Modisane, Todd Matshikiza, Es`kia Mphahlele, Richard Rive, Alex La Guma, and Can ... After working as features editor of the News Chronicle (1954–56) Hopkinson moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, to edit Drum (1958–61), ...
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    drum
    in biology, any of about 160 species of fishes of the family Sciaenidae (order Perciformes); drums are carnivorous, generally bottom-dwelling fishes. ... [1 related articles]
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    drum
    musical instrument, the sound of which is produced by the vibration of a stretched membrane (it is thus classified as a membranophone within the ... [18 related articles]
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