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drumming out

/druhm/US // drʌm //UK // (drʌm) //

敲锣打鼓,敲锣打鼓的,敲锣打鼓的声音,敲锣打鼓地

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural drums, drum.

    • : a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
    • : any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.
    • : the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.
    • : any rumbling or deep booming sound.
    • : a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.
    • : eardrum.
    • : any cylindrical object with flat ends.
    • : a cylindrical part of a machine.
    • : a cylindrical box or receptacle, especially a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.
    • : Also called tambour .Architecture. any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.
    • : any of several marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that produce a drumming sound.
    • : Also called drum memory .Computers. magnetic drum.
    • : Archaic. an assembly of fashionable people at a private house in the evening.
    • : a person who plays the drum.
    • : Australian Informal. reliable, confidential, or profitable information: to give someone the drum.
v.无主动词 verb
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    drummed,drum·ming.

    • : to beat or play a drum.
    • : to beat on anything rhythmically, especially to tap one's fingers rhythmically on a hard surface.
    • : to make a sound like that of a drum; resound.
    • : to produce a sound resembling drumming.
v.有主动词 verb
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    drummed,drum·ming.

    • : to beat rhythmically; perform by beating a drum: to drum a rhythm for dancers.
    • : to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.
    • : to drive or force by persistent repetition: to drum an idea into someone.
    • : to fill a drum with; store in a drum: to drum contaminated water and dispose of it.
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    • : drum out, to expel or dismiss from a military service in disgrace to the beat of a drum.to dismiss in disgrace: He was drummed out of the university for his gambling activities.
    • : drum up, to call or summon by, or as if by, beating a drum.to obtain or create through vigorous effort: They were unable to drum up enthusiasm for the new policies.to concoct; devise: to drum up new methods of dealing with urban crime.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inexpel

Examples

  • It also would have enhanced the sounds of drums or other musical instruments, Cox says.

  • All that to be said, I think the drum we advertisers need to be beating isn’t primarily “who owns the data”, though certainly let’s get that determined.

  • Clicking on different objects, like the clock and the piano, prompts the user to adjust different tracks, like the drum line and melody.

  • Authorities are trying to figure out what to do about a drum circle in Ocean Beach.

  • As our lives pass day by day, the beating drums of the weekly routine take over and years pass until we reach our goal of retirement.

  • Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.

  • One man, straddling a large drum, keeps time as their voices rise in song: “Believe it, people, Ebola can kill.”

  • They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.

  • It sounds familiar—right down to the media drum beat to lower physician pay.

  • And much of his most inspired playing, in his final years, came in the context of sax-drum duets.

  • Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.

  • There a familiar sound met his ears—the roll of a drum followed by an incantation in a quavering, high-pitched voice.

  • "I wonder if 'twas a brass drum, such as has 'Eblubust Unum' printed on't," said Mrs. Slocum.

  • His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.

  • I think 6½ feet diameter for the fly, and 9½ inches diameter for the small wheel, will give speed enough to the drum.