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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. Vic Santucci:

   Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species.

2. Christopher Gardner:

   If you asked me in my heart of hearts do I think we should have been banging the drum about nutrition for the last 100 years? Yes. So every time we can bang the drum a little more, I’m always in favor.

3. 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.

4. Mo Brooks:

   We must beat them like a drum at the ballot box.

5. Travis Tritt:

   I saw a guy up on a little small stage over in the corner, with just him and a guitar. And I think he had, like, a little drum machine. And that was it. And I sat and watched this guy, and he was pretty good. I sat and watched him for about two hours. And I thought to myself the whole time, I could do that job. I could do that. I could do that. I could do that as good as he can, maybe even better.