Zambomba vs. Drum — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Zambomba and Drum
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Definitions
Zambomba
A Spanish friction drum, consisting of a ceramic pot with a skin and a pole in the middle. To play it, the stick is rubbed to make a deep sound
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.
Drum
A percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends
A shuffling dance to the beat of a drum
Drum
A cylindrical container or receptacle
A drum of powdered bleach
Drum
A house or flat.
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Drum
An evening or afternoon tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century
A drum at Lady Beresford's
Drum
A piece of reliable inside information
He had got the drum that the police wouldn't lock us up
Drum
A long, narrow hill, especially one separating two parallel valleys.
Drum
A fish that makes a drumming sound by vibrating its swim bladder, found mainly in estuarine and shallow coastal waters.
Drum
Play on a drum
He channelled his energies into drumming with local groups
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Drum
Give (someone) reliable information or a warning
I'm drumming you, if they come I'm going
Drum
A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere with a membrane stretched tightly over one or both ends, played by beating with the hands or sticks.
Drum
A sound produced by this instrument.
Drum
Something resembling a drum in shape or structure, especially a barrellike metal container or a metal cylinder wound with cable, wire, or heavy rope.
Drum
A circular or polygonal wall supporting a dome or cupola. Also called tambour.
Drum
Any of the cylindrical stone blocks that are stacked to form the shaft of a column.
Drum
Any of various marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that make a drumming sound by vibrating certain muscles attached to the swim bladder.
Drum
(Anatomy) The eardrum.
Drum
To play a drum or drums.
Drum
To thump or tap rhythmically or continually
Nervously drummed on the table.
Drum
To produce a booming, reverberating sound by beating the wings, as certain birds do.
Drum
To perform (a piece or tune) on or as if on a drum.
Drum
To summon by or as if by beating a drum.
Drum
To make known to or force upon (a person) by constant repetition
Drummed the answers into my head.
Drum
To expel or dismiss in disgrace. Often used with out
Was drummed out of the army.
Drum
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
Percussion instrument
Drum
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
Replace the drum unit of your printer.
Drum
A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
Drum
(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
Drum
(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
Drum
A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
Drum
A tip; a piece of information.
Drum
A small hill or ridge of hills.
Drum
A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
Drum
A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
Drum
(informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
Drum
(intransitive) To beat a drum.
Drum
(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
Drum
(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
Drum
To throb, as the heart.
Drum
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
Drum
Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
Drum
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
The drums cry bud-a-dub.
Drum
Anything resembling a drum in form
Drum
See Drumfish.
Drum
A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment.
Drum
A tea party; a kettledrum.
Drum
To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
Drum
To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
Drum
To throb, as the heart.
Drum
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.
Drum
To execute on a drum, as a tune.
Drum
With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
Drum
With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
Drum
A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
Drum
The sound of a drum;
He could hear the drums before he heard the fifes
Drum
A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
Drum
A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
Drum
A hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
Drum
Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
Drum
Make a rhythmic sound;
Rain drummed against the windshield
The drums beat all night
Drum
Play a percussion instrument
Drum
Study intensively, as before an exam;
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam