| Front | drum |
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| Back | drum noun, verb BrE /drʌm/ NAmE /drʌm/ noun word origin example bank 1 a musical instrument made of a hollow round frame with plastic or skin stretched tightly across one or both ends. You play it by hitting it with sticks or with your hands a bass drum Tony Cox on drums to play the drums a regular drum beat There was a great crash and then a long roll of drums. 2 a large container for oil or chemicals, shaped like a cylinder a 50 gallon drum an oil drum 3 a thing shaped like a drum, especially part of a machine The mixture flows to a revolving drum where the water is filtered out. beat/bang the ˈdrum (for sb/sth) (especially BrE) to speak with enthusiasm in support of sb/sth She's really banging the drum for the new system. more at march to (the beat of) a different drummer/drum at march verb verb forms word origin example bank (-mm-) 1 [intransitive] to play a drum 2 [transitive, intransitive] ~ (sth) on sth to make a sound by hitting a surface again and again Impatiently, he drummed his fingers on the table. ˈdrum sth into sb's head = drum sth into sb ˈdrum sth into sb to make sb remember sth by repeating it a lot of times We had it drummed into us that we should never talk to strangers. ˌdrum sb ˈout (of sth) [usually passive] to force sb to leave an organization as a punishment for doing sth wrong He was drummed out of the army. ˌdrum sthˈup to try hard to get support or business He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign. |
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