Drum vs. Ruffle — What's the Difference?

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

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it

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

Ornament with or gather into a frill

A cylindrical container or receptacle

An ornamental gathered or goffered frill of lace or other cloth on a garment, especially around the wrist or neck.

A house or flat.

A vibrating drum beat.

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

A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration.

A piece of reliable inside information

A ruff on a bird.

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

An irregularity or a slight disturbance of a surface

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

A beating or rustling sound

Play on a drum

A low continuous beating of a drum that is not as loud as a roll. Also called ruff4.

Give (someone) reliable information or a warning

To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple

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.

To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle.

A sound produced by this instrument.

To put a ruffle on (a garment, for example).

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

To erect (the feathers). Used of birds.

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

To discompose or annoy; fluster

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

To flip through (the pages of a book).

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 shuffle (cards).

(Anatomy) The eardrum.

To become irregular or rough

To play a drum or drums.

To become annoyed or flustered

To thump or tap rhythmically or continually

To flip through the pages of a book

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

To search for something in a container

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

To make a beating or rustling sound.

To summon by or as if by beating a drum.

To beat a ruffle on (a drum).

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

(Obsolete) To behave arrogantly or roughly; swagger.

To expel or dismiss in disgrace. Often used with out

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.

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

Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.

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

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.

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

(transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

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

(transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).

(intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

A tip; a piece of information.

(intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

A small hill or ridge of hills.

(intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

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

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

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

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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

To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

To throb, as the heart.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.

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

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

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

To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

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.

To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

Anything resembling a drum in form

To throw into disorder or confusion.

See Drumfish.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

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

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

A tea party; a kettledrum.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

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

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

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.

That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

To throb, as the heart.

A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.

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

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; - called also ruff.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

The connected series of large egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca.

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

A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

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 high tight collar

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

A noisy fight

The sound of a drum;

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Trouble or vex;

A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;

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

Discompose;

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

Twitch or flutter;

Make a rhythmic sound;

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;

Play a percussion instrument

Erect or fluff up;

Study intensively, as before an exam;

Disturb the smoothness of;

Pleat or gather into a ruffle;