The act of beating a drum.
Used in a Sentence
drumming
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drumming.
Editorial note
You hit a snare in a drumming app and it felt like hundreds of milliseconds of lag, horrible.
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Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The act of beating a drum.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of drumming gathered in one view.
A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.
In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for drumming.
noun
The act of beating a drum.
noun
A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.
noun
In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.
Example sentences
You hit a snare in a drumming app and it felt like hundreds of milliseconds of lag, horrible.
Then the Netflix team grabbed their knives (by way of drumming up the ire of their user community).
We have a /8 and can not come anywhere close to drumming up interest for it.
The danger of your opinion is that it precludes research into things like drumming and chanting.
It's falling into the classic political trap of addressing one half the problem while drumming up full-speed-ahead support for the other half.
Richard Feynman played the bongos - but I don't think that blurs the boundary between drumming and science.
I've become decent at a wide-ranging set of skills - cooking, feminist lit-crit, Arabic drumming, odd things like that.
It's advantageous to remain in the mystery-land of hype and unrealistic expectations as long as you can keep drumming up easy investor money.
It might be more accurate to say that the government, rather than the citizens, are drumming up an opposition to push things through politically.
I learned to keep time by drumming on the wheel with music when stopped in traffic.
It might be good for muscle memory, I suppose, so perhaps it applies to drumming.
Economic downturn would certainly be a threat and war drumming has been a common political tool used by many different countries at different points in history.
Quote examples
They're both obviously very good at "spin" and drumming up PR to win support of their audience.
So actual reality is "drumming a rhetoric of fear" now?
My first response to the emergence of any new syndrome/disorder is, "Who benefits?" Drumming up public consciousness of things that are supposedly wrong with them (rather than being seen as natural variations) seems like great marketing for anyone selling newly-minted treatments.
It's hard to think that the people would have loved those buildings (two local iconic landmarks were less than 100m away), but you raise a good point in that perhaps it was about drumming up support for the replacement, as in " anything but that!".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use drumming in a sentence?
You hit a snare in a drumming app and it felt like hundreds of milliseconds of lag, horrible.
What does drumming mean?
The act of beating a drum.
What part of speech is drumming?
drumming is commonly used as noun.