PERCUSSIVE INSTRUMENT Synonyms

• (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

• music composed for dancing the conga

• a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file

• dance the conga

• a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located

• a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• sound a gong

• a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

• a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

• a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken

• loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail

• make short successive sounds

• shake and cause to make a rattling noise

• a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world

• a person who wields power and influence

• a container in which something can be shaken

• something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

• a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

• a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

• strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

• a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

• catch in or as if in a trap

• entice and trap

• a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

• a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

• any of various drums with small heads

• a small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries

• a three-sided polygon

• something approximating the shape of a triangle

• any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles

• a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle

• a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

• the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture

• the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle

• a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it

• acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound

• an inexpensive fipple flute

• make whistling sounds

• move with, or as with, a whistling sound

• utter or express by whistling

• move, send, or bring as if by whistling

• make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound

• give a signal by whistling

• a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

• A type of frame drum used in Celtic music which was traditionally played by being struck with an animal bone, or in modern times, a piece of wood.

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• emit a sound