tympany
rub-a-dub
drumbeat
rataplan
tuck
drum
tattooing
drumming
dub
drumbeater
rubadub
thumpy
oontz
tambour
doosh
drumbeating
drummer
drummingly
candombe
drum roll
goatskin
ruff
ruffle
drummist
friction drum
drum fill
snare
talking drummer
clacker
frame drum
roll
tympanic
tabor
gran casa
goombay
bass drum
isukuti
kit
trimba
conguero
snare drummer
rimshot
paradiddle
bangy
beat
drumlike
drumskin
press roll
beat out
tambourine
drummy
kendhang
tupan
thrum
geophone
agida
fontomfrom
sticksman
sticking
boom
ping pong
tattoo
devil's tattoo
percussion
bangingly
bongo drum
dhaki
bongo
percussionist
tympan
drumful
set
troop
gin
sticksmanship
kanjira
pellet drum
taborine
cymbal
drum set
tom-tom
quads
drum kit
drill and bass
tambourer
baton
thumpy
tympanic
bangy
drumlike
drummy
drummingly
bangingly
tympany
rub-a-dub
drumbeat
rataplan
tuck
drum
tattooing
drumming
drumbeater
rubadub
tambour
drumbeating
drummer
candombe
drum roll
goatskin
ruff
ruffle
drummist
friction drum
drum fill
snare
talking drummer
clacker
frame drum
roll
tabor
gran casa
goombay
bass drum
isukuti
kit
trimba
conguero
snare drummer
rimshot
paradiddle
drumskin
press roll
tambourine
kendhang
tupan
geophone
agida
fontomfrom
sticksman
sticking
ping pong
devil's tattoo
percussion
bongo drum
dhaki
bongo
percussionist
tympan
drumful
set
troop
gin
sticksmanship
kanjira
pellet drum
taborine
cymbal
drum set
tom-tom
quads
drum kit
drill and bass
tambourer
baton
dub
drum
beat
beat out
thrum
tattoo
rataplan
noun
- The beat of a drum.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
noun
- the sound of a drum
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly 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
verb
verb
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
noun
noun
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
- A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
intj
verb
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
noun
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
verb
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
noun
- A snare drum.
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- A mental or psychological trap.
- A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
verb
noun
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A drum kit.
- Clothing.
- A kitten (young cat).
- A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
- A young rabbit.
- A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons.
- A young ferret.
- The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
- A young beaver.
- A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
- A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
- A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
- A young skunk.
- A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
- Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
- The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
- A young weasel
- Synonym of kit violin
- A kit fox.
verb
verb
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
adj
noun
verb
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
adj
noun
- Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- A fringe made of such threads.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- A spicy taste; a tang.
- A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
- A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
noun
intj
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
verb
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
noun
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
noun
- A small, shallow steelpan drum.
- An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth.
- Table tennis.
- The exchange of proposed amendments between the two Houses of Parliament, particularly at the end of a session when compromises have to be made to complete the legislative process within the limited time available.
verb
verb
- To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
- To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
noun
- A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- A military display or pageant.
- A pony of a certain breed from India.
- An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
- A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
noun
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
- A group of meerkat families living together.
- A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- A company of actors; a troupe.
- A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
- A group of baboons.
- A group of soldiers; military forces.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- An individual soldier or member of a military force.
verb
noun
- A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A windpump.
- An Aboriginal woman.
- A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
- An instrument of torture worked with screws.
- Gin rummy.
- A cotton gin.
- Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
- A pile driver.
- A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
verb
conj
noun
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
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