(n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
(n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
(n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
(n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
(v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method for continuous registration of perfusion rate of frog blood vessels has been developed utilizing a modified Marey's tambour with lever system, connected to the perfusion bottle.
(2) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
(3) Intracranial pressure sensors and subdural and subgaleal sensing tambours were used to measure the pressure difference between the intracranial and subgaleal spaces in two monkeys.
(4) Redesign to decrease tambour permeability should allow a useful life of months or years.
(5) Autopsy findings confirmed that the sensing tambours became encapsulated with a pseudomembrane that did not attenuate the pressure signal.
Tambourine
Definition:
(n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) An accordionist and tambourine player, hired every year by this slowly dwindling circle of elderly friends, play as we sit at a long table under the arches of the postwar town centre.
(2) Outside Belfast city hall at lunchtime on Sunday protesters banged pots and pans, rattled tambourines and battered bongo drums in a "No Silence" protest against the violence that started over the city council's new union flag policy.
(3) Early single Manners, with its unfathomably wonderful chorus full of down-pitched tambourines, was the sort of song you sense would never go anywhere.
(4) Footage from the blocked M20 shows young families dancing to a steel drummer accompanied by a tambourine player.
(5) Fool's Gold, a larger local collective, is an overlapping mass of saxophones, guitars, bongos and tambourines.
(6) A bit of incidental tambourine behind Gary Lineker's head?
(7) Tambourines and top hats are encouraged, as is singing along; so if you only really like that one the Corrs covered you might find it a little bit much.
(8) Elsewhere in the nursery, girls (and one boy) in school blazers rattle tambourines and play hide and seek with energetic small folk, under the watchful eyes of the nursery staff.
(9) His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case.
(10) He tells me about how brilliant Saul is in the studio; how, when they started, Saul would shout at him for being rubbish, chuck a tambourine at Lias’s head until he made better music.
(11) A steel drummer and tambourine player entertained a small crowd on the M20, while a banjo player was spotted strumming on the back of a stationary trailer.