drum

v. play a percussion instrument; beat rhythmically

n. percussion instrument; sound produced by the playing such an instrument

The drum is a member of the percussion group that can be large, technically classified as a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.Most drums are considered "untuned instruments", however many modern musicians are beginning to tune drums to songs; Terry Bozzio has constructed a kit using Diatonic and Chromatically tuned drums, few such as timpaniare always tuned to a certain pitch. Often, several drums are arranged together to create a drum set that can be played by a musician.
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History The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan. Auto workers who were members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers created DRUM as a subsidiary organization which could challenge the official local union as defacto representative of Dodge workers.
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Noun
1. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
(synonym) membranophone, tympan
(hypernym) percussion instrument, percussive instrument
(hyponym) bass drum, gran casa
(part-meronym) drumhead, head
2. the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
(hypernym) sound
3. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
(synonym) barrel
(hypernym) cylinder
4. a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
(synonym) metal drum
(hypernym) vessel
5. a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
(synonym) brake drum
(hypernym) cylinder
(part-holonym) drum brake, drum brakes
6. small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
(synonym) drumfish
(hypernym) sciaenid fish, sciaenid
(hyponym) striped drum, Equetus pulcher
Verb
1. make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
(synonym) beat, thrum
(hypernym) sound, go
(verb-group) beat
(derivation) drummer
2. play a percussion instrument
(hypernym) play
(classification) music
3. study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
(synonym) cram, grind away, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
(hypernym) study, hit the books
(verb-group) cram

adv. because of this, due to this

n. drum, percussion instrument

v. drum, play a percussion instrument; beat rhythmically