Drum vs. Vessel

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.

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

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

Example: ‘The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.’;

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

(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.

A person's home.

A tip, a piece of information.

A small hill or ridge of hills.

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

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

Example: ‘The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.’;

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

Example: ‘He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.’;

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.

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.

Example: ‘The drums cry bud-a-dub.’;

Anything resembling a drum in form

See Drumfish.

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

Example: ‘Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment.’;

A tea party; a kettledrum.

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

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.

Example: ‘Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.’;

To throb, as the heart.

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

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

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

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.

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

the sound of a drum;

Example: ‘he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes’;

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

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

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

make a rhythmic sound;

Example: ‘Rain drummed against the windshield’; ‘The drums beat all night’;

play a percussion instrument

study intensively, as before an exam;

Example: ‘I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam’;

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

Example: ‘a shuffling dance to the beat of a drum’;

a drum kit

Example: ‘how to play guitar, drums, or keyboards’;

the percussion section of a band or orchestra.

a sound made by or resembling that of a drum

Example: ‘the drum of their feet’;

a military drummer.

a cylindrical container or receptacle

Example: ‘a drum of powdered bleach’;

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

a cylindrical part in certain other appliances.

the circular vertical wall supporting a dome.

a stone block forming part of a column.

a tramp's bundle of belongings.

a house or flat.

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

Example: ‘a drum at Lady Beresford's’;

a piece of reliable inside information

Example: ‘he had got the drum that the police wouldn't lock us up’;

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

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

play on a drum

Example: ‘he channelled his energies into drumming with local groups’;

make a continuous rhythmic noise

Example: ‘hooves drummed on the turf’; ‘she felt the blood drumming in her ears’;

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

Example: ‘waiting around an empty table, drumming their fingers’;

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

Example: ‘two greater spotted woodpeckers were drumming’;

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

Example: ‘snipe should now be drumming all round the reserve’;

give (someone) reliable information or a warning

Example: ‘I'm drumming you, if they come I'm going’;

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

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

A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

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

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

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

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

Example: ‘Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.’;

(transitive) To put into a vessel.

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.

Example: ‘[They drank] out of these noble vessels.’;

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.

Example: ‘[He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk.’;

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.

Example: ‘He is a chosen vessel unto me.’; ‘[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whomTo enter.’;

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

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.

To put into a vessel.

a tube in which a body fluid circulates

a craft designed for water transportation

an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

a ship or large boat.

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

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

Example: ‘Lord, use this lowly vessel, let me serve You as You will’;

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

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