Tun vs. Drum

Tunnoun

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

Tunnoun

(brewing) A fermenting vat.

Tunnoun

An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.

Tunnoun

A weight of 2,240 pounds.

Tunnoun

An indefinite large quantity.

Tunnoun

A drunkard.

Tunnoun

Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera; called also tun-shell.

Tunnoun

A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.

Tunverb

(transitive) To put into tuns, or casks.

Tunnoun

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

Tunnoun

A fermenting vat.

Tunnoun

A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

Tunnoun

A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.

Tunnoun

An indefinite large quantity.

Tunnoun

A drunkard; - so called humorously, or in contempt.

Tunnoun

Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; - called also tun-shell.

Tunverb

To put into tuns, or casks.

Tunnoun

a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals

Tunnoun

a large beer or wine cask.

Tunnoun

a brewer's fermenting vat.

Tunnoun

an imperial measure of capacity, equal to 4 hogsheads.

Tunnoun

a large marine mollusc which has a rounded shell with broad spirals.

Tunverb

store (wine or other alcoholic drinks) in a tun.

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.