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# drum

«drum» in Mova's school dictionary: **a musical instrument made of a hollow body with skin or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (drum, drums); verb (drum, drums, drummed, drumming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A drum is a musical instrument made of a hollow body with skin or plastic stretched over it, played by hitting it with sticks or hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#m1)

2) A drum is a large container shaped like a cylinder, for liquids: an oil drum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#m2)

3) To drum means to play a drum, or to tap again and again: drum your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#m3)

4) To drum something into someone means to teach it by repeating it many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#m4)

5) The eardrum is the thin skin inside your ear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, pupils play drums to keep the beat and rhythm. In science, drums show how sound is made by vibrations; tighter skin makes a higher note; the eardrum vibrates when sound reaches it. In everyday life, rain «drums» on the roof. Phrases: play the drums, drum kit, drumroll, drum up (support), beat the drum, eardrum.

### examples

- My brother plays the drums in a band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x1)
- The drum makes a sound when its skin vibrates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x2)
- Rain was drumming on the tin roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x3)
- She drummed her fingers on the desk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x4)
- The road-safety rules were drummed into us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x5)
- Very loud noise can damage your eardrums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x6)
- There was a drumroll before the winner was announced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x7)
- The Beetle smote upon the drum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/#x8)

### note

Double m: drummed, drumming. «Play the drums» (plural) for the kit. In maths, a drum (container) is a cylinder; volume = area of the circle × height. A person who plays drums is a drummer.

### In the corpora

- [The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/6/)
- [The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/13/)
- [The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/14/)
- [Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/14/)
- [In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drum» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drum/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.