Synonyms for drum
drʌmdrum

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drum, membranophone, tympannoun

   a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

   Synonyms:
   brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drum

2. drumnoun

   the sound of a drum

   "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

   Synonyms:
   brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drum

3. barrel, drumnoun

   a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

   Synonyms:
   membranophone, bbl, brake drum, metal drum, drumfish, cask, gun barrel, tympan, barrelful, barrel

4. drum, metal drumnoun

   a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

   Synonyms:
   brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drum

5. brake drum, drumnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   drumfish, tympan, membranophone, metal drum, barrel, brake drum

6. drum, drumfishverb

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

   Synonyms:
   brake drum, tympan, membranophone, drumfish, barrel, metal drum

7. drum, beat, thrumverb

   make a rhythmic sound

   "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

   Synonyms:
   baffle, exhaust, stupefy, circumvent, stick, strum, crush, vanquish, get, bone up, mystify, outfox, flummox, beat, outwit, hum, tick, nonplus, trounce, grind away, beat up, bunk, swot up, tucker out, flap, mug up, beat out, dumbfound, gravel, swot, thump, ticktack, amaze, thrum, work over, overreach, ticktock, puzzle, quiver, get up, pound, bone, pulsate, cram, bewilder, perplex, tucker, vex, wash up, outsmart, pose, scramble, shell

8. drumverb

   play a percussion instrument

   Synonyms:
   grind away, cram, thrum, mug up, swot up, get up, bone up, bone, beat, swot

9. cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, boneverb

   study intensively, as before an exam

   "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

   Synonyms:
   prink, rise, prepare, stand up, bone up, ram, fancy up, deck out, elevate, uprise, jam, trick up, rig out, tog up, grind away, lift, deck up, arise, swot up, gussy up, mug up, attire, dress up, swot, tog out, organise, beat, thrum, chock up, wad, raise, work up, trick out, get up, bone, turn out, cram, bring up, devise, fig out, organize, jampack, overdress, debone, machinate, fig up

Matched Categories

1. • Cylinder
   • Music
   • Play
   • Sound
   • Study
   • Vessel

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. harlem

   a circular instrument.

   "i can't play the drum, only the guitar!"

   Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drumnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Anat.) tympanum

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drumnoun

   Synonyms:
   snare-drum, base-drum, kettle-drum, tabor, taborine

   Associated words:
   reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick

2. drumverb

   Synonyms:
   thrum, strum

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1. List of paraphrases for "drum":

   tambor, drums, drummer, drumming, kwu, drummers, capstan, keg, barrel

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drum

   Synonyms:
   Tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica [NA6], eardrum§
   

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How to use drum in a sentence?

1. Alicia Norris:

   Now the team wants to backtrack and say we are being culturally appropriate and we are being respectful of indigenous people by saying no headdresses, and that is a good start, but the fans are still operating as if it is an indigenous-type atmosphere because you are still called the Chiefs. And you can still do this movement that looks like a tomahawk chop, but we are going to call it a drum beat instead. It is kind of silly. Just change it.

2. Adam Smith:

   What we can do is try to shine a light on it, to make the case that this is a bad idea, drum up public pressure so the president will stop doing these things.

3. Joe Biden:

   I think Michael Bloomberg should jump in the race. Michael Bloomberg's Michael Bloomberg. Michael Bloomberg's done a lot of good. And let's see what happens, every single poll that's run I beat Joe Biden like a drum as I said. And states in South Carolina and states in the Midwest. And so look, if Joe Biden wants to run Joe Biden should just get in and run.

4. Charles Eliot Norton:

   The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

5. P. G. Wodehouse:

   “As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.”