<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.</li><li>any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.</li><li>the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.</li><li>any rumbling or deep booming sound.</li><li>a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.</li><li>eardrum (def).</li><li>any cylindrical object with flat ends.</li><li>a cylindrical part of a machine.</li><li>a cylindrical box or receptacle, especially a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.</li><li>Also called tambour.</li><li>Architecture: any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.</li><li>a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.</li><li>Ichthyology: any of several marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that produce a drumming sound.</li><li>Also called drum memory.</li><li>Computers: magnetic drum (def).</li><li>Archaic: an assembly of fashionable people at a private house in the evening.</li><li>a person who plays the drum.</li><li>Australian Informal: reliable, confidential, or profitable information: to give someone the drum.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>