Aid-major
(n.) The adjutant of a regiment. |
Bass drum
() The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
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
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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. |
Etat Major
() The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates |
Major
(a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent |
Major
(a.) Of greater dignity |
Major
(a.) Of full legal age. |
Major
(a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. |
Major
(a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel |
Major
(a.) A person of full age. |
Major
(a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism |
Major
(a.) A mayor. |
Major-domo
(n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house |
Major general
() An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Tierce-major
(n.) See Tierce, 4. |
| major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
variola major
variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
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 |
sergeant major
Abudefduf saxatilis | large blue-grey black-striped damselfish, nearly worldwide |
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 |
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 |
| major suit | (bridge) a suit of superior scoring value, either spades or hearts |
major tranquilizer
major tranquillizer
major tranquilliser
antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic agent
antipsychotic
neuroleptic drug
neuroleptic agent
neuroleptic | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired |
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 |
pectoralis major
musculus pectoralis major
greater pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm |
rhomboideus major muscle
greater rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus major | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column |
teres major
teres major muscle
musculus teres major | teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially |
| major | the principal field of study of a student at a university, her major is linguistics |
| major axis | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, passes through the two foci |
| major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
major premise
major premiss | the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
major key
major mode | a key whose harmony is based on the major scale |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| major lobe | the maximum lobe in the radiation pattern which is intended to be along the forward axis and which gives the effect of a beam |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
| 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 |
major-league team
major-league club | a team that plays in a major league |
world power
major power
great power
power
superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
major league
big league
majors | the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) |
Canis Major
Great Dog | a constellation to the southeast of Orion, contains Sirius |
Great Bear
Ursa Major | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
planet
major planet | (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun, viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction |
| 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 |
| major | a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines, below lieutenant colonel and above captain |
| major | a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject, she is a linguistics major |
major-domo
seneschal | the chief steward or butler of a great household |
| major-general | a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general |
major leaguer
big leaguer | a member of a major-league baseball team |
| pipe major | the chief piper in a band of bagpipes |
sergeant major
command sergeant major | a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army |