Dram vs. Drum — What's the Difference?

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

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

A unit of weight in the US Customary System equal to 1/16 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).

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 unit of apothecary weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams).

A cylindrical container or receptacle

A small draft

A house or flat.

A small amount; a bit

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

See Table at currency.

A piece of reliable inside information

Dynamic RAM.

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

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

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

Alternative form of drachm.

Play on a drum

(pharmacy) drachm.

Give (someone) reliable information or a warning

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

A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere with a membrane stretched tightly over one or both ends, played by beating with the hands or sticks.

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

A sound produced by this instrument.

(by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

Something resembling a drum in shape or structure, especially a barrellike metal container or a metal cylinder wound with cable, wire, or heavy rope.

A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.

A circular or polygonal wall supporting a dome or cupola. Also called tambour.

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

Any of the cylindrical stone blocks that are stacked to form the shaft of a column.

The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Any of various marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that make a drumming sound by vibrating certain muscles attached to the swim bladder.

To drink drams.

(Anatomy) The eardrum.

To ply with drams of drink.

To play a drum or drums.

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.

To thump or tap rhythmically or continually

A minute quantity; a mite.

To produce a booming, reverberating sound by beating the wings, as certain birds do.

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.

To perform (a piece or tune) on or as if on a drum.

A Persian daric.

To summon by or as if by beating a drum.

Same as dynamic RAM.

To make known to or force upon (a person) by constant repetition

To drink drams; to ply with drams.

To expel or dismiss in disgrace. Often used with out

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

A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.

1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

The basic unit of money in Armenia

A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

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

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

A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).

A tip; a piece of information.

A small hill or ridge of hills.

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.

(informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

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

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

To throb, as the heart.

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

Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.

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.

Anything resembling a drum in form

See Drumfish.

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

A tea party; a kettledrum.

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

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.

To throb, as the heart.

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

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

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

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.

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

The sound of a drum;

A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

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

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

Make a rhythmic sound;

Play a percussion instrument

Study intensively, as before an exam;