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drum

English

  1. 🔊 small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
  2. 🔊 a musical percussion instrument
  3. 🔊 a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
  4. 🔊 the sound of a drum
    “he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes”
  5. 🔊 a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
  6. 🔊 a bulging cylindrical shape
  7. 🔊 play a percussion instrument
  8. 🔊 make a rhythmic sound
    “Rain drummed against the windshield”
  9. 🔊 study intensively, as before an exam
    “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tambor drum
  2. 🔊 tímpano drum
  3. 🔊 bidón drum, can, jerrycan (barrel for liquid)

Similar words

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