Drum vs Bin - What's the difference?

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.

As a verb drum

is to beat a drum.

drum

English

Noun

(en noun)

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.

The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums .

A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 631:

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 .

(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:

‘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 drum

Verb

(drumm)

To beat a drum.

(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.

The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

* Washington Irving

drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair

To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.

He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.

To throb, as the heart.

(Dryden)

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

Derived terms

* drummer

bin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

A container for rubbish or waste.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.

Synonyms

* (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)

Verb

(binn)

To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

* 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:

To throw away, reject, give up.

* 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59:

* 2005 , Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7, p. 238:

(label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

(label) To place into a bin for storage.

Synonyms

* (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

Derived terms

{{der3, bin bag , bin liner , binman , bread bin , dustbin , rubbish bin , wheelie bin}}

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(head)

(lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .

Etymology 3

Contraction of being

Contraction

(en-contraction)

(label) Contraction of being

Etymology 4

Contraction of been

Verb

(head)

Etymology 5

Short for (binary).

Noun

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