TAMBURS Synonyms

• 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 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

• the act of playing a percussion instrument

• the act of exploding a percussion cap

• the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments

• tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

• 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

• any of various drums with small heads

• 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 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 pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.

• individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell

• small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods