Drum vs Battery - What's the difference?
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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 .
A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().
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, chapter=1 (legal) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
A coordinated group of artillery.
An array of similar things.
A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
As nouns the difference between drum and battery
is that 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 while battery is a coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().As a verb drum
is to beat a drum.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.
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Derived terms
* drummerbattery
English
(wikipedia battery)Noun
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- Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
