drum

IPA: drˈʌm

A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
(US) Synonym of construction barrel
(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
(Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
(boxing, slang, obsolete) The ear.
(now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
(now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
(slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
(informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
A surname.
A settlement (Mains of Drum) in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, near Drum Castle (OS grid ref NO8099).
A mountain in Conwy county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7069).
A village in County Monaghan, Ireland.
A civil parish and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland.
An unincorporated community in Bollinger County, Missouri, USA, named after the Drum family.

(intransitive) To beat a drum.
(transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
To throb, as the heart.
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.

Examples of "drum" in Sentences

That is what I call drum roll, please, the ethic of identity.
The kit comes with the only tool you need, which is what they call a drum key.
The drumbeat of the Democrats being beat like a drum is everywhere that Fox News can feed a tag line.
PC: Well, certain drum machines, when they started making sampling drum machines, used bits of "In The Air Tonight."
This instinct, he called the "drum major instinct," entices people to live above their means, "feeding a repressed ego."
When fishing with baits such as mirro-lures and spinnerbait type lures for speckled trout and red drum is usually go superline with a leader depending on water clarity.
The drum is graduated for the complete radius — which took some tall figuring, I assure you — and the cable, winding around the drum and shortening, draws the tractor in toward the center.