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Drum vs Pony - What's the difference?

drum | pony |

As nouns the difference between drum and pony

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 pony is pony (horse) or pony can be bangs, fringe (haircut ).

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

    See also

    * percussion

    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

    pony

    English

    (wikipedia pony)

    Etymology 1

    1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).

    Noun

    (ponies)
  • Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
  • (regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
  • Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
  • * 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood , page 283,
  • I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
    ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
    ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.
  • (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
  • (UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
  • (US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
  • Synonyms
    * (l)
    Derived terms
    * dog and pony show * play the ponies * polo pony * pony and trap * pony chaise * pony engine * pony express * pony glass * pony keg * pony truck * pony truss * pony up * Shetland pony

    Verb

  • To lead (a horse) from another horse.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pony and trap), rhyming with (crap)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
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