1. • noun - a musical percussion instrument
   • noun - the sound of a drum
   • noun - a bulging cylindrical shape
   • noun - a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
   • noun - a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
   • noun - small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
   • verb - make a rhythmic sound
   • verb - play a percussion instrument
   • verb - study intensively, as before an exam
2. • Music.
   • 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 sound produced by this instrument.
   • Something resembling a drum in shape or structure, especially a barrellike metal container or a metal cylinder wound with cable, wire, or heavy rope.
   • Any of various marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that make a drumming sound.
   • The eardrum.
   • To play a drum or drums.
   • To thump or tap rhythmically or continually: nervously drummed on the table.
   • 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: drummed the answers into my head.
   • To expel or dismiss in disgrace: was drummed out of the army.
   • To bring about by continuous, persistent effort: drum up new business.
   • To devise; invent: drummed up an alibi.
3. • v - to beat a drum (a percussion instrument)

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