(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
(n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
(n.) See Drumfish.
(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
(n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.
(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To throb, as the heart.
(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.
(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
(v. t.) (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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(2) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(4) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(5) The frequency of OKN was also decreased, and the total deviation of the eyes was reduced for OKN induced by these drum speeds.
(6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
(7) It’s drummed into us from the first day of medical school: “First, do no harm.” We can do without tepid, faux-conflicted advice from the likes of Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS.
(8) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
(9) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
(10) 5.55pm BST Can you hear the drums of doubt Fernando?
(11) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(12) Lee sang, tap-danced and did comic turns before settling on the drums.
(13) Reitzell, who drums with Air, warns me during my nail-biting wait that Shields tends to work all night and sleep all day and never answers his phone.
(14) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
(15) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(16) Pro-China groups had been told they could not use drums to try to drown out rights activists .
(17) Overall, it's an attempt to portray most of a continent (and if you refer to his original speech , Pakistan as well) as an undifferentiated mass of uncivilised people who have just enough sophistication to rip us off by spending our money on sunglasses, but otherwise are happy with their drums.
(18) I am very clear that I want to ensure we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works for everyone across the United Kingdom and all parts of the UK when we enter these negotiation,” said the prime minister in Wales, at the start of a whirlwind UK tour aimed at drumming up last-minute support from the devolved administrations.
(19) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
(20) Thus, in the case of foaming capacity, losses ranging from 17% to 34% were detected in the drum-dried hydrolysate, and of 38% to 49% in the hydrolysate dehydrated using a spray drier, during the first two months of storage.
Drumstick
Definition:
(n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten.
(n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ultrastructural study found not only round, but also elongated and drumstick-shaped alpha-granules and rod-like structures protruding from round alpha-granules.
(2) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(3) Only peroneus longus from the drumstick and semitendinosus from the thigh had maximum percentage increases in length, width, and depth at the same age that maximum percentage weight increases occurred.
(4) In at least six of the cell types a series of dendritic specializations can be observed, such as spines in the form of "drumsticks" and thin varicose appendages, similar to those reported previously in the optic tecta of amphibians and teleosts.
(5) Billed as Channel 4's first factually inspired period drama, The Mill joins this month's Run (concrete, weeping) and next month's Southcliffe (guns, despair) in a tri(gl)umvirate of astonishingly bleak summer dramas, the channel's determined attempt to do a big stinging wee all over the nation's barbecued drumsticks.
(6) Therefore, pressure cooking resulted in a loss ranging from 36% for the drumstick to 53% for the thigh skin.
(7) Effects of product form classifications, consisting of intact turkey drumsticks, dark meat trim tissue, and mechanically deboned meat, on microbiological concentrations were evaluated.
(8) The most distinctive features of the two first types (1) and (2) are their irregular drumstick shape appendages, increasing in number as well as in length and irregularity of their stalks towards the periphery of the dendrites.
(9) Radiological examination demonstrated striking hypoplasia of the humerus with proximal rounding and distal tapering giving a 'drumstick' appearance, 'S'-shape configuration of the cervical spine, scoliosis and coronal cleft in the thoracolumbar vertebral bodies.
(10) The correlation between the nuclear lobe counts and the frequencies of drumstick-like appendages in polymorphs was also similar to that reported for drumsticks in blood cells in vivo.
(11) The presence of polymorphonuclear neutrophils exhibiting a drumstick, in the hemopoietic tissues and a sex chromatin body in the nucleated cells of buccal mucosa suggest that mosaicism prevails in other somatic tissues of the horse.
(12) Fillet and tender yields (per lean carcass weight) were higher for Treatment E than BI and opposite responses were seen for drumstick and thigh yields.
(13) I’ll be here from 6.30pm to keep an eye on every fearful Foxtrot and chilling Charleston, so grab the bowl of Trick or Treat leftovers (mostly Cadbury's Fudge bars and Drumstick lollies, in my case) and join me in the comment box.
(14) Turkey drumsticks or whole carcasses were artificially contaminated with S. senftenberg 775W or S. typhimurium in concentrations ranging between 5 X 10(5) to 8 X 10(5) viable cells per ml.
(15) Both brightly and weakly fluorescent drumsticks (in females) and drumstick-like bodies (in males) were observed, and they were readily differentiated on the basis of size, shape and, usually, fluorescent intensity.
(16) Relative weights of heart and all segments of the gastrointestinal tract except the esophagus were smaller in the faster than in the slower growing line whereas breast, thigh, and drumstick were greater for the faster than the slower growing line.
(17) This is why John Farrell keeps Drew in the lineup despite the fact that he might as well be stepping to the plate with a turkey drumstick instead of a bat.
(18) A case of keratosis palmoplantaris with drumstick fingers, hypotrichosis, hypohidrosis and dental dysplasia is presented.
(19) Since no truly sex-specific drumsticks appeared to be present in the polymorphs of this cell line containing only one X chromosome, the study supports the accepted notion that there is a correlation between drumstick frequency and the presence of one versus two X chromosomes.