Drum vs. Vessel

Drumnoun

A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.

Drumnoun

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

Drumnoun

In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

Drumnoun

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

Drumnoun

(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola

Drumnoun

(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar

Drumnoun

A drumfish.

Drumnoun

A person's home.

Drumnoun

A tip, a piece of information.

Drumnoun

A small hill or ridge of hills.

Drumverb

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

Drumverb

(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.

Drumverb

(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.

Drumverb

To throb, as the heart.

Drumverb

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.

Drumnoun

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; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

Drumnoun

Anything resembling a drum in form

Drumnoun

See Drumfish.

Drumnoun

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

Drumnoun

A tea party; a kettledrum.

Drumverb

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

Drumverb

To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

Drumverb

To throb, as the heart.

Drumverb

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.

Drumverb

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

Drumverb

With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

Drumverb

With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

Drumnoun

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

Drumnoun

the sound of a drum;

Drumnoun

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Drumnoun

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

Drumnoun

a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

Drumnoun

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

Drumverb

make a rhythmic sound;

Drumverb

play a percussion instrument

Drumverb

study intensively, as before an exam;

Drumnoun

a percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends

Drumnoun

a drum kit

Drumnoun

the percussion section of a band or orchestra.

Drumnoun

a sound made by or resembling that of a drum

Drumnoun

a military drummer.

Drumnoun

a cylindrical container or receptacle

Drumnoun

a rotating cylindrical part in a washing machine, in which the washing is placed.

Drumnoun

a cylindrical part in certain other appliances.

Drumnoun

the circular vertical wall supporting a dome.

Drumnoun

a stone block forming part of a column.

Drumnoun

a tramp's bundle of belongings.

Drumnoun

a house or flat.

Drumnoun

an evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century

Drumnoun

a piece of reliable inside information

Drumnoun

a long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.

Drumnoun

a fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters.

Drumverb

play on a drum

Drumverb

make a continuous rhythmic noise

Drumverb

beat (the fingers, feet, etc.) repeatedly on a surface, especially as a sign of impatience or annoyance

Drumverb

(of a woodpecker) strike the bill rapidly on a dead trunk or branch, especially as a sound indicating a territorial claim

Drumverb

(of a snipe) vibrate the outer tail feathers in a diving display flight, making a throbbing sound

Drumverb

give (someone) reliable information or a warning

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.

Vesselnoun

(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

Vesselnoun

A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

Vesselnoun

Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

Vesselnoun

A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

Vesselnoun

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

Vesselnoun

(biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

Vesselverb

(transitive) To put into a vessel.

Vesselnoun

A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.

Vesselnoun

A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.

Vesselnoun

Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.

Vesselnoun

Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.

Vesselnoun

A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheæ), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.

Vesselverb

To put into a vessel.

Vesselnoun

a tube in which a body fluid circulates

Vesselnoun

a craft designed for water transportation

Vesselnoun

an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

Vesselnoun

a ship or large boat.

Vesselnoun

a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.

Vesselnoun

(chiefly in biblical use) a person regarded as having or embodying a particular quality

Vesselnoun

a duct or canal holding or conveying blood or other fluid.

Vesselnoun

any of the tubular structures in the vascular system of a plant, serving to conduct water and mineral nutrients from the root.