drum vs reverberate

drum

verb
  • Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming. 

  • To beat with a rapid succession of strokes. 

  • To throb, as the heart. 

  • To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for. 

  • To beat a drum. 

  • To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization. 

noun
  • A drumfish (family Sciaenidae). 

  • Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. 

  • A tip; a piece of information. 

  • A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone. 

  • Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar. 

  • A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. 

  • Synonym of construction barrel 

  • The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola. 

  • A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel. 

  • A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc). 

  • A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. 

reverberate

verb
  • To ring or sound with many echos. 

  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. 

  • To rebound or recoil. 

  • To have a lasting effect. 

  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side. 

  • To repeatedly return. 

  • To fuse by reverberated heat. 

  • To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.). 

adj
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected. 

  • reverberant 

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