"drum head" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: drum heads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drum head (plural drum heads)
  1. The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic. Synonyms: skin, drumskin, drumhead Derived forms: drumhead cabbage, drumhead clock, drumhead court-martial, drumhead tribunal Translations (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell): trommeskind (Danish), trommelvel [neuter] (Dutch), rumpukalvo (Finnish), isi (Greenlandic), parche (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-drum_head-en-noun-VjocMLhY Disambiguation of 'thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell': 99 1
  2. A drumhead cabbage. Categories (lifeform): Brassicas
    Sense id: en-drum_head-en-noun-N5Eeiw8x Disambiguation of Brassicas: 29 71 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Greenlandic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Greenlandic translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 31 69

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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