Tambour vs. Tambourine — What's the Difference?

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.

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head.

A drum or drummer.

A percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with metal discs in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand.

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

A percussion instrument consisting of a small drumhead with jingling disks fitted into the rim, usually played by shaking and striking with the hand.

Embroidery made on such a frame.

A similar instrument without a drumhead.

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

A tambourine dove.

(Architecture) See drum.

A kind of Provençal dance.

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

The music for this dance.

To embroider at or on such a frame.

To play the tambourine.

(musical instruments) A small shallow drum.

To make a sound like a tambourine.

A circular frame for embroidery.

A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.

A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.

Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.

A shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

(architectural element) The capital of a Corinthian column.

(architecture) drum

(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.

(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.

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

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

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

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

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.

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.

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.

To embroider on a tambour.

A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering

A drum