Percussion vs. Drum

Percussionnoun

(countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.

Percussionnoun

(countable) The sound so produced.

Percussionnoun

(countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.

Percussionnoun

(medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.

Percussionnoun

(music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.

Percussionnoun

(engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.

Percussionnoun

(palmistry) The outer side of the hand.

Percussionnoun

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.

Percussionnoun

Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.

Percussionnoun

The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.

Percussionnoun

the act of playing a percussion instrument

Percussionnoun

the act of exploding a percussion cap

Percussionnoun

the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments

Percussionnoun

tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

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.