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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)

2. 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

3. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

5. A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

7. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
8. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
9. A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
10. (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.’

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)

1. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.

   • drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair

3. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.

4. To throb, as the heart.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

5. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
6. 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)

1. (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)

1. (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 […] .

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. (music) drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit

Synonyms

• trommel

Derived terms

• drumstel

German

Pronunciation

Adverb

drum

1. Contraction of darum.

Further reading

• “drum” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”).

Noun

drum n (plural drumuri)

1. 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 ?????)

1. road

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

vat (plural vats)

1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
3. (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
4. (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

Translations

Verb

vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)

1. (transitive) To put into a vat.
2. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:

     He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat/

Etymology 1

From Dutch vatten

Verb

vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)

1. to take
2. to grasp

Etymology 2

From Dutch vat

Noun

vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)

1. barrel

Danish

Noun

vat

1. cotton wool

Derived terms

• vatpind
• vattet

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?.

Noun

vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)

1. barrel, tank
2. (biology) vessel

Synonyms

• ton

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vat. Related to vatten.

Noun

vat m (uncountable)

1. grip, both literal and figurative

   geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...

Derived terms

• handvat
• vatten

Verb

vat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vatten
2. imperative of vatten

Volapük

Etymology

From German Wasser, English water, and Dutch water.

Noun

vat (nominative plural vats)

1. water

Declension