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# drumhead

«drumhead» in Mova's school dictionary: **the tight skin or plastic sheet stretched across a drum…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (drumhead, drumheads)

### meaning for a pupil

The drumhead is the tight skin or plastic sheet stretched across a drum, which is hit to make the sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the skin of an animal is stretched over a drum to make its head

### examples

- Tap the drumhead gently with your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x1)
- The drumhead split when the drummer hit it too hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x2)
- The old drum needed a new drumhead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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