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drum
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).
Noun
drum (plural drums)
- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- Hypernym: percussion instrument
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:
- ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:
Usage notes
When used in the plural, "drums" or "the drums" often specifically means a drum kit as used for contemporary styles such as rock or jazz; a classical percussionist would be very unlikely to say that they "play the drums" on a piece, even if the only parts they play are, indeed, drums (as opposed to marimba or xylophone or similar.)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- percussion
Verb
drum (third-person singular simple present drums, present participle drumming, simple past and past participle drummed)
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- To throb, as the heart.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- drum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Irish druim, Scottish Gaelic druim (“back, ridge”).
Noun
drum (plural drums)
- (now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
Usage notes
- Mainly encountered in place names, such as Drumglass and Drumsheugh.
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
Noun
drum (plural drums)
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. [from 18th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 631:
- Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 105:
- [H]e was engaged in a partie of cards, at a drum in the house of a certain lady of quality […] .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 631:
- (slang, chiefly Britain) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel. [from 19th c.]
Derived terms
- drummer (housebreaker; travelling salesman)
References
- drum at OneLook Dictionary Search
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- drumu
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”). Compare Romanian drum.
Noun
drum n (plural drumuri)
- road
Synonyms
- cali, sucachi
See also
- cãrari
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English drum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dr?m/
- Hyphenation: drum
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
drum m (plural drums, diminutive drummetje n)
- (music) drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit
Synonyms
- trommel
Derived terms
- drumstel
German
Pronunciation
Adverb
drum
- Contraction of darum.
Further reading
- “drum” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”).
Noun
drum n (plural drumuri)
- road
Declension
Related terms
See also
- strad?
- cale
- c?rare
- ?osea
References
Language in Danger Andrew Dalby, 2003
References
- drum in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”).
Noun
dr?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- road
Declension
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tympanum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“a drum, timbrel, tambourine; the eardrum”). Doublet of timbre and timpani.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?m.p?n.?m/
- Rhymes: -?mp?n?m
Noun
tympanum (plural tympanums or tympana)
- (archaic) a drum
- (anatomy, zootomy) Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
- (anatomy, zootomy) the eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
- (anatomy, zootomy) the main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
- (zootomy, entomology) a thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
- (zootomy) a membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
- (zootomy) (in certain birds) the labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
- (architecture) a vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
- the recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
- the recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
- (engineering) a drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation
Derived terms
Translations
References
- “tympanum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “tympanum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (túmpanon, “a kettledrum, drum”), from ?????? (túpt?, “to strike, beat, smite”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?tym.pa.num/, [?t??mpän???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?tim.pa.num/, [?t?imp?num]
Noun
tympanum n (genitive tympan?); second declension
- (literally, music) drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine
- (figuratively) timbrel as a figure of something effeminate or enervating
- (transferred sense) (of things of a like shape):
- drum or wheel in machines for raising weights, in water organs, etc.
- (architecture):
- triangular area of a pediment
- panel of a door
- part of the clepsydra
- Synonym: phellos
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
- tympanium
Related terms
Descendants
Note: see ????????? (túmpanon) for later re-borrowings from Byzantine.
References
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “tympanum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 132, page 455
- tympanum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tympanum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tympanum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- tympanum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- tympanum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[1]
- tympanum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tympanum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tympanum n
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tympanon
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