drum

Type of:: cylinder
a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; 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; side drum, snare, snare drum
a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head; tabor, tabour
a small drum with one head of soft calfskin; tambour
a drum; tambourine
a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides; tenor drum, tom-tom
any of various drums with small heads; timbrel
small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers

Type of:: percussion instrument, percussive instrument
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another

“he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes”

Type of:: cylinder
a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Equetus pulcher, striped drum
a kind of drumfish; Equetus lanceolatus, jackknife-fish
black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin; Bairdiella chrysoura, mademoiselle, silver perch
small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico; Sciaenops ocellatus, channel bass, red drum, redfish
large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico

Type of:: sciaenid, sciaenid fish
widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound

“Rain drummed against the windshield”

DEFINITIONS OF: drum