drum
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1.0
- noun
- /drʌm/
- Comes in big orange drums.
- 55-gallon drum
- steel drum
- gallon drum
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Examples
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The puncturing device is attached to a 55-gallon drum which collects the released liquids.
Academic text (1995) -
Brian helps Stephen as they snake their way past sweating drums, pressure valves hissing madly with desperation.
Fiction book (1991) -
No, we know we had an oil drum in the side of it.
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I put it in the paint drums.
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Incoming material is placed in the drum for five to seven days, then screened.
Academic text (1998) -
I saw a drum of this stuff fall into a beachhead bunker once.
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Zoo staff load five cy/week into each drum at a bedding to manure ratio of 20:1.
Academic text (1998) -
The heated bitumen is sent to coke drums, which separate the bitumen into coke and hydrocarbon gases.
Academic text (1998) -
Suncor will also replace its 30-year-old conditioning drums, which are expensive to maintain, with McClennahan rotary breakers.
Academic text (1998) -
The workers transported the chemicals in a large drum to the storage facility.
Synonyms
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1.3
A thing that holds or stores items, for example a box
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1.0
A large round container made of wood or metal that holds liquids such as wine and oil
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3.1
A large container that holds liquids like water in factories or farms
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3.2
A large round metal container that holds liquids and dry goods for storage and transport
Idioms
Compounds
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3.9
A Caribbean musical instrument made from an oil barrel that you hit to make different notes
- US
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7.0
A large fish people eat and catch for sport along the United States Atlantic coast
- Specialized
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4.8
A device that stops a vehicle wheel by pressing curved metal pieces inside a round drum
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3.2
A large round metal container that holds liquids and dry goods for storage and transport
- Specialized
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4.5
A hollow round metal part on a wheel that brake shoes push against to stop the vehicle
- Specialized
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6.0
A power tool that sands wood with a spinning drum wrapped in sandpaper
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4.1
A set of pads and electronics you play like drums to make different drum sounds
- Archaic
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9.9
An early computer storage device using a rotating metal cylinder covered with magnetic material to hold data
- UK
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3.5
A small musical instrument with two tight skins and wires under one skin used in bands and orchestras
- Archaic
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7.4
A round metal object covered with magnetic material that stores computer data, especially in early computers
- Archaic
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6.6
A fast machine that makes whole lines of letters and numbers using a rotating drum
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Etymology
Drum (container) comes from the name of the musical drum because both are 'hollow' and round; people began calling large cylindrical barrels 'drums' since they look like a big instrument that could be struck.