Usually means: Cylindrical musical instrument with membrane.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. drum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drum, drum, drum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drum, the drum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drum, drum: Wordnik
  7. drum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Drum, Drum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Drum, drum: Wiktionary
  10. drum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. drum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. drum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. drum: Dictionary.com
  14. drum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. drum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. DRUM, Drum (American magazine), Drum (EP), Drum (Noa Kirel's Song), Drum (South African magazine), Drum (Wales), Drum (album), Drum (communication), Drum (container), Drum (disambiguation), Drum (fish), Drum (movie), Drum (musical instrument), Drum (tobacco), Drum (yacht), Drum, Drum, The Drum (Arts Centre), The Drum (TV program), The Drum (song), The Drum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Drum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. drum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. drum: Rhymezone
  20. drum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. drum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Drum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. drum: Free Dictionary
  24. drum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Drum (apartment): The Word Detective
  26. drum: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRUM: Band Terms
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. drum: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drum (instrument), Drum (music), Drum (musical instrument), drum: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drum: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Drum (fish), Drum (instrument), Drum (music), Drum (musical instrument), Drum (zoology), drum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Drum: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Drum (instrument), Drum (music), Drum (musical instrument), drum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRUM: Acronym Finder
  2. drum: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drum: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Drum: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum, drum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drum: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Drum: Urban Dictionary
  4. Drum: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. drum: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
noun:  Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
noun:  A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
noun:  (US) Synonym of construction barrel
noun:  (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
noun:  (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
noun:  A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
noun:  (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
noun:  (boxing, slang, obsolete) The ear.
verb:  (intransitive) To beat a drum.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
verb:  (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
verb:  To throb, as the heart.
verb:  To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
verb:  Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
noun:  (now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
noun:  (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
noun:  (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
noun:  (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A settlement (Mains of Drum) in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, near Drum Castle (OS grid ref NO8099).
noun:  A mountain in Conwy county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7069).
noun:  A village in County Monaghan, Ireland.
noun:  A civil parish and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bollinger County, Missouri, USA, named after the Drum family.

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