Tympany vs Tympan - What's the difference?
tympany | tympan |
The sound made by beating a drum.
(medicine) (distention of the abdomen).
Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed
(musical instruments) the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end
(architecture) a tympanum
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As nouns the difference between tympany and tympan
is that tympany is the sound made by beating a drum while tympan is a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.tympany
English
Noun
(tympanies)- Thine 's a tympany of sense. — Dryden.
- (De Quincey)
