Drum vs Triangle - 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.

As a proper noun triangle is

the area comprising the cities of used with "the" except when attributive.

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

triangle

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

A love triangle.

* 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:

One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

(historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

Synonyms

* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See also

Derived terms

* acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulation

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