drum

«drum» in Mova's school dictionary: a musical instrument made of a hollow body with skin or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (drum, drums); verb (drum, drums, drummed, drumming)

meaning for a pupil

1) A drum is a musical instrument made of a hollow body with skin or plastic stretched over it, played by hitting it with sticks or hands. tree →

2) A drum is a large container shaped like a cylinder, for liquids: an oil drum. tree →

3) To drum means to play a drum, or to tap again and again: drum your fingers. tree →

4) To drum something into someone means to teach it by repeating it many times. tree →

5) The eardrum is the thin skin inside your ear. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons, pupils play drums to keep the beat and rhythm. In science, drums show how sound is made by vibrations; tighter skin makes a higher note; the eardrum vibrates when sound reaches it. In everyday life, rain «drums» on the roof. Phrases: play the drums, drum kit, drumroll, drum up (support), beat the drum, eardrum.

examples

• My brother plays the drums in a band. tree →
• The drum makes a sound when its skin vibrates. tree →
• Rain was drumming on the tin roof. tree →
• She drummed her fingers on the desk. tree →
• The road-safety rules were drummed into us. tree →
• Very loud noise can damage your eardrums. tree →
• There was a drumroll before the winner was announced. tree →
• The Beetle smote upon the drum. tree →

note

Double m: drummed, drumming. «Play the drums» (plural) for the kit. In maths, a drum (container) is a cylinder; volume = area of the circle × height. A person who plays drums is a drummer.

In the corpora

• The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes.
• The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.
• The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument.
• Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.
• In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drum» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.