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鼓;圓桶咚咚地敲;打鼓奏打鼓,咚咚地敲;發出嗡嗡聲

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Drumming}.]
   1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a
      drum.

   2. 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.
                                                  --W. Irving.

   3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden.

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

Drum \Drum\, n. [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel,
   Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a
   clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a
   booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of
   imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.]
   1. (Mus.) 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.              --Gascoigne.

   2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as:
      (a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum,
          for warming an apartment by means of heat received
          from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam,
          etc.
      (b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are
          packed.
      (c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but
          incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
      (d) (Arch.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical,
          blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed;
          also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal
          in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
      (e) (Mach.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for
          the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of
          belts or straps passing around its periphery; also,
          the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or
          chain is wound.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) See {Drumfish}.

   4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a
      private house; a rout. [Archaic]

            Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and
            emptiness of the entertainment.       --Smollett.

   Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and
         hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and
         uproar, as the significant name of each declares.

   5. A tea party; a kettledrum. --G. Eliot.

   {Bass drum}. See in the Vocabulary.

   {Double drum}. See under {Double}.

Drum \Drum\, v. t.
   1. To execute on a drum, as a tune.

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

   3. (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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

drum
     n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a
          hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
          [syn: {membranophone}, {tympan}]
     2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he
        heard the fifes"
     3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: {barrel}]
     4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage
        of liquids [syn: {metal drum}]
     5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms
        part of the brakes [syn: {brake drum}]
     6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes
        of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming
        noise [syn: {drumfish}]
     [also: {drumming}, {drummed}]

drum
     v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
          windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: {beat}, {thrum}]
     2: play a percussion instrument
     3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
        my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {cram}, {grind
        away}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot up}, {bone}]
     [also: {drumming}, {drummed}]

資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

drum
     
        Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once
        state-of-the-art storage devices.  Under {BSD} {Unix} the disk
        partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this
        has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced
        but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on {newbie}s.
     
        See also "{The Story of Mel}".
     
        (1994-12-22)