| 单词 | drum |
| 释义 | Word Frequency drum 1(drʌm) noun 1. music a percussion instrument sounded by striking a membrane stretched across the opening of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere 2. beat the drum for 3. the sound produced by a drum or any similar sound 4. an object that resembles a drum in shape, such as a large spool or a cylindrical container 5. architecture a. one of a number of cylindrical blocks of stone used to construct the shaft of a column b. the wall or structure supporting a dome or cupola 6. short for eardrum 7. Also called: drumfish any of various North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fishes, such as Equetus pulcher (striped drum), that utter a drumming sound 8. a type of hollow rotor for steam turbines or axial compressors 9. computing a rotating cylindrical device on which data may be stored for later retrieval: now mostly superseded by disks disk (sense 2)10. archaic a drummer 11. the drum verbWord forms: drums, drumming or drummed 12. to play (music) on or as if on a drum 13. to beat or tap (the fingers) rhythmically or regularly 14. (intransitive) (of birds) to produce a rhythmic sound, as by beating the bill against a tree, branch, etc 15. (transitive; sometimes foll by up) to summon or call by drumming 16. (transitive) to instil by constant repetition to drum an idea into someone's head Word origin C16: probably from Middle Dutch tromme, of imitative originWord Frequency drum 2(drʌm) noun Scottish and Irish a narrow ridge or hill Word origin C18: from Scottish Gaelic druim |
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