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Drum vs. Tambour — What's the Difference?

Drum vs. Tambour — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Drum and Tambour

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Drum

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

Tambour

In classical architecture, a tambour (Fr.: "drum") is the inverted bell of the Corinthian capital around which are carved acanthus leaves for decoration.The term also applies to the wall of a circular structure, whether on the ground or raised aloft on pendentives and carrying a dome (also known as a tholobate), and to the drum-shaped segments of a column, which is built up in several courses.

Drum

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

Tambour

A drum or drummer.

Drum

A cylindrical container or receptacle
A drum of powdered bleach
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Tambour

A small embroidery frame, usually made of wood or plastic, consisting of two concentric hoops between which fabric is stretched.

Drum

A house or flat.

Tambour

Embroidery made on such a frame.

Drum

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

Tambour

A rolling front or top for a desk or table, consisting of narrow strips of wood glued to canvas.

Drum

A piece of reliable inside information
He had got the drum that the police wouldn't lock us up

Tambour

(Architecture) See drum.

Drum

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

Tambour

To do (embroidery) on a frame consisting of two concentric hoops.

Drum

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

Tambour

To embroider at or on such a frame.

Drum

Play on a drum
He channelled his energies into drumming with local groups

Tambour

(musical instruments) A small shallow drum.

Drum

Give (someone) reliable information or a warning
I'm drumming you, if they come I'm going

Tambour

A circular frame for embroidery.

Drum

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.

Tambour

A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.

Drum

A sound produced by this instrument.

Tambour

Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.

Drum

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

Tambour

(architectural element) The capital of a Corinthian column.

Drum

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

Tambour

(architecture) drum

Drum

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

Tambour

(military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.

Drum

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.

Tambour

(biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.

Drum

(Anatomy) The eardrum.

Tambour

(sport) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.

Drum

To play a drum or drums.

Tambour

A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.

Drum

To thump or tap rhythmically or continually
Nervously drummed on the table.

Tambour

(ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

Drum

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

Tambour

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

Drum

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

Tambour

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.

Drum

To summon by or as if by beating a drum.

Tambour

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.

Drum

To make known to or force upon (a person) by constant repetition
Drummed the answers into my head.

Tambour

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.

Drum

To expel or dismiss in disgrace. Often used with out
Was drummed out of the army.

Tambour

To embroider on a tambour.

Drum

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

Tambour

A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering

Drum

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
Replace the drum unit of your printer.

Tambour

A drum

Drum

A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.

Drum

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

Drum

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

Drum

A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).

Drum

A tip; a piece of information.

Drum

A small hill or ridge of hills.

Drum

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

Drum

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

Drum

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

Drum

(intransitive) To beat a drum.

Drum

(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

Drum

(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.

Drum

To throb, as the heart.

Drum

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

Drum

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

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.
The drums cry bud-a-dub.

Drum

Anything resembling a drum in form

Drum

See Drumfish.

Drum

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.

Drum

A tea party; a kettledrum.

Drum

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

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.
Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.

Drum

To throb, as the heart.

Drum

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

Drum

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

Drum

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

Drum

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.

Drum

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

Drum

The sound of a drum;
He could hear the drums before he heard the fifes

Drum

A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Drum

A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

Drum

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

Drum

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

Drum

Make a rhythmic sound;
Rain drummed against the windshield
The drums beat all night

Drum

Play a percussion instrument

Drum

Study intensively, as before an exam;
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

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