Dram vs. Drum

Dramnoun

(units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:

Drumnoun

A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.

Dramnoun

One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g).

Drumnoun

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

Dramnoun

(pharmacy) lang=en.

Drumnoun

In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

‘The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.’;

Dramnoun

(now uncommon) nodot=a: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).

Drumnoun

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

Dramnoun

(obsolete) nodot=a: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).

Drumnoun

(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola

Dramnoun

Any similarly minute quantity, a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

‘a dram of brandy’;

Drumnoun

(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar

Dramnoun

(historical) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.

Drumnoun

A drumfish.

Dramnoun

(obsolete) nodot=a: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.

Drumnoun

A person's home.

Dramnoun

(numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Drumnoun

A tip, a piece of information.

Dramverb

To drink drams.

Drumnoun

A small hill or ridge of hills.

Dramverb

To ply with drams of drink.

Drumverb

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

Dramnoun

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

Drumverb

(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.

‘The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.’;

Dramnoun

A minute quantity; a mite.

‘Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.’;

Drumverb

(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.

‘He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.’;

Dramnoun

As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.

Drumverb

To throb, as the heart.

Dramnoun

A Persian daric.

Drumverb

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.

Dramnoun

same as dynamic RAM.

Drumnoun

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.

‘The drums cry bud-a-dub.’;

Dramverb

To drink drams; to ply with drams.

Drumnoun

Anything resembling a drum in form

Dramnoun

a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

Drumnoun

See Drumfish.

Dramnoun

1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

Drumnoun

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

‘Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment.’;

Dramnoun

the basic unit of money in Armenia

Drumnoun

A tea party; a kettledrum.

Dramnoun

a memory chip that depends upon an applied voltage to keep the stored data.

Drumverb

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

Drumverb

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.

‘Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.’;

Drumverb

To throb, as the heart.

Drumverb

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.

Drumverb

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

Drumverb

With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

Drumverb

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.

Drumnoun

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

Drumnoun

the sound of a drum;

‘he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes’;

Drumnoun

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Drumnoun

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

Drumnoun

a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

Drumnoun

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

Drumverb

make a rhythmic sound;

‘Rain drummed against the windshield’; ‘The drums beat all night’;

Drumverb

play a percussion instrument

Drumverb

study intensively, as before an exam;

‘I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam’;

Drumnoun

a percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends

‘a shuffling dance to the beat of a drum’;

Drumnoun

a drum kit

‘how to play guitar, drums, or keyboards’;

Drumnoun

the percussion section of a band or orchestra.

Drumnoun

a sound made by or resembling that of a drum

‘the drum of their feet’;

Drumnoun

a military drummer.

Drumnoun

a cylindrical container or receptacle

‘a drum of powdered bleach’;

Drumnoun

a rotating cylindrical part in a washing machine, in which the washing is placed.

Drumnoun

a cylindrical part in certain other appliances.

Drumnoun

the circular vertical wall supporting a dome.

Drumnoun

a stone block forming part of a column.

Drumnoun

a tramp's bundle of belongings.

Drumnoun

a house or flat.

Drumnoun

an evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century

‘a drum at Lady Beresford's’;

Drumnoun

a piece of reliable inside information

‘he had got the drum that the police wouldn't lock us up’;

Drumnoun

a long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.

Drumnoun

a fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters.

Drumverb

play on a drum

‘he channelled his energies into drumming with local groups’;

Drumverb

make a continuous rhythmic noise

‘hooves drummed on the turf’; ‘she felt the blood drumming in her ears’;

Drumverb

beat (the fingers, feet, etc.) repeatedly on a surface, especially as a sign of impatience or annoyance

‘waiting around an empty table, drumming their fingers’;

Drumverb

(of a woodpecker) strike the bill rapidly on a dead trunk or branch, especially as a sound indicating a territorial claim

‘two greater spotted woodpeckers were drumming’;

Drumverb

(of a snipe) vibrate the outer tail feathers in a diving display flight, making a throbbing sound

‘snipe should now be drumming all round the reserve’;

Drumverb

give (someone) reliable information or a warning

‘I'm drumming you, if they come I'm going’;

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.