Bugle vs Drum - What's the difference?
bugle | drum |
A horn used by hunters.
(music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 631:
(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar
A drumfish.
(slang, UK) A person's home.
A tip, a piece of information.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:
To beat a drum.
(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
* Washington Irving
To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
To throb, as the heart.
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for .
As verbs the difference between bugle and drum
is that bugle is while drum is to beat a drum.As a noun drum is
a percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.bugle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnelHypernyms
* musical instrumentDerived terms
* buglerCoordinate terms
* trumpetVerb
(bugl)Synonyms
* trumpetEtymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.
Etymology 3
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----drum
English
Noun
(en noun)- The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums .
- Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum .
- ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’
Derived terms
* bass drum * drum and bass * drum beat * drum brake * drum kit * drummer * drum roll * drumstick * drum stick * hand drum * kettledrum * snare drum * tenor drumSee also
* percussionVerb
(drumm)- The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
- drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
- He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
- (Dryden)
