Bass drum
() The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Cable
(n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. |
Cable
(n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance |
Cable
(n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope |
Cable
(v. t.) To fasten with a cable. |
Cable
(v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling. |
Cable
(v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable |
Drum
(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick |
Drum
(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum
(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum
(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum
(n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum
(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum
(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum
(n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum
(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum
(n.) A tea party |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum
(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum
(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum
(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum
(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major
() . |
Drum major
() The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major
() The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major
() A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
Reeling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reel |
Sheet cable
() The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. |
drum
drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
striped drum
Equetus pulcher | a kind of drumfish |
red drum
channel bass
redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
bass drum
gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bongo
bongo drum | a small drum, played with the hands |
brake drum
drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
| cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
| cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car
car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable
coax
coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
drum
membranophone
tympan | a musical percussion instrument, usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end |
| drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
| drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
| drum printer | a line printer in which the type is mounted on a rotating drum that contains a full character set for each printing position |
drum sander
electric sander
sander
smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
| electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
| ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
| ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
| motorized wheelchair | a wheelchair propelled by a motor |
power line
power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
| printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
snare drum
snare side drum | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
| steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
tenor drum
tom-tom | any of various drums with small heads |
tramway tram aerial tramway
cable tramway
ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
cable
cablegram
overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television
cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
| drum | the sound of a drum, he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes |
paradiddle
roll drum roll | the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously |
| drum major | the leader of a marching band or drum corps |
drum majorette
majorette | a female drum major |
| drum majorette majorette | a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band |
cable
cable length
cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
barrel
drum | a bulging cylindrical shape, hollow with flat ends |
cram
grind away
drum
bone up
swot
get up
mug up
swot up
bone | study intensively, as before an exam, I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam |
cable
telegraph
wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
| cable | fasten with a cable, cable trees |
beat up
drum up
rally | gather, drum up support |
| drum | play a percussion instrument |
drum
beat
thrum | make a rhythmic sound, Rain drummed against the windshield, The drums beat all night |
oust
throw out
drum out
boot out
kick out
expel | remove from a position or office, The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds |
mechanized
mechanised
motorized | using vehicles, motorized warfare |
motorized
motorised
motored | equipped with a motor or motors, a motorized wheelchair |
drum-shaped
drum-like | shaped in a form resembling a drum |