Drum vs Roller - What's the difference?
drum | roller |
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 .
(lb) Anything that rolls.
#Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
#A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller".
#(lb) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
#A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
#An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
#One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
#A roller towel.
#A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
#Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves.
#Any of the small ground snakes of the family .
A long wide bandage used in surgery.
A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) A bird.
#A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler).
#Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
(also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
The police (old blues slang).
A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
*2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 69:
*:I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller . The names of the writers went on for ever.
As nouns the difference between drum and roller
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 roller is Anything that rolls.As a verb drum
is to beat a drum.As a proper noun Roller is
a Rolls-Royce car.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)