Drum vs. Tympan — 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.

Tympan means skin, and is used in a variety of technical meanings.

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

(Printing) A padding, as of paper or cloth, placed over the platen of a press to regulate the pressure on the sheet being printed.

A cylindrical container or receptacle

(Architecture) A tympanum.

A house or flat.

A tightly stretched sheet or membrane, as on the head of a drum.

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

(printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.

A piece of reliable inside information

(music) The stretched membrane of a drum.

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

(music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.

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

(architecture) A tympanum.

Play on a drum

The tympanum of the ear.

Give (someone) reliable information or a warning

A 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.

A panel; a tympanum.

A sound produced by this instrument.

A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

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

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

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

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.

(Anatomy) The eardrum.

To play a drum or drums.

To thump or tap rhythmically or continually

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

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

To summon by or as if by beating a drum.

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

To expel or dismiss in disgrace. Often used with out

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

Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

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;