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 () . |
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. |
Hoist (v. t.) To raise |
Hoist (n.) That by which anything is hoisted |
Hoist (n.) The act of hoisting |
Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff. |
Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay. |
Hoist (p. p.) Hoisted. |
Independent (a.) Not dependent |
Independent (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood |
Independent (a.) Not subject to bias or influence |
Independent (a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence |
Independent (a.) Separate from |
Independent (a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. |
Independent (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation |
Independent (a.) Not bound by party |
Independent (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority. |
Independent (n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances |
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 |
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 |
hoist | lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects |
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 |
independent variable experimental variable | (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables |
law of independent assortment | each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random |
main clause independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
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 |
Commonwealth of Independent States CIS | an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec |
independent agency | an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments |
Papua New Guinea Independent State of Papua New Guinea | a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations |
Samoa Independent State of Samoa Western Samoa Samoa i Sisifo | a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific |
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 |
freelancer freelance free-lance free lance independent self-employed person | a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them |
mugwump independent fencesitter | a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) |
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 |
beat up drum up rally | gather, drum up support |
hoist lift wind | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help, hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car |
hoist run up | raise, hoist the flags, hoist a sail |
hoist | move from one place to another by lifting, They hoisted the patient onto the operating table |
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 |
independent | free from external control and constraint, an independent mind, a series of independent judgments, fiercely independent individualism |
independent main(a) | (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence, the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb |
independent | not controlled by a party or interest group |
autonomous independent self-governing sovereign | (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces, an autonomous judiciary, a sovereign state |
drum-shaped drum-like | shaped in a form resembling a drum |