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drum roll
" I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
Tony Bennett

Meaning of "drum roll" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DRUM ROLL

drʌm rəʊl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRUM ROLL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drum roll is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRUM ROLL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drum roll

A drum roll is a technique the percussionist employs to produce a sustained sound on a percussion instrument. Rolls are used by composers to sustain the sound and create other effects, the most common of which is using a roll to build anticipation.

Definition of drum roll in the English dictionary

The definition of drum roll in the dictionary is a series of drum beats that follow each other so closely that they make a continuous sound.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRUM ROLL

casserole · control · drole · parole · patrol · payroll · rock-and-roll · role · roll · scroll · stroll · Tirol · troll · Tyrol

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRUM ROLL

drum · drum and bass · drum brake · drum kit · drum machine · drum major · drum majorette · drum out · drum set · drum up · drum´n´bass · drumbeat · drumbeater · drumble · drumbledrane · drumfire · drumfish · drumhead · drumhead cabbage · drumhead court-martial

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRUM ROLL

barrel roll · bread roll · Carroll · court roll · death roll · dinner roll · egg roll · electoral roll · forward roll · French roll · honor roll · jam roll · jelly roll · muster roll · on a roll · piano roll · rock and roll · sausage roll · spring roll · swiss roll · toilet roll

Synonyms and antonyms of drum roll in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drum roll» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRUM ROLL

Find out the translation of drum roll to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of drum roll from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drum roll» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

击鼓
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

redoble de tambor
570 millions of speakers
en

English

drum roll
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

रोल ड्रम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طبل لفة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

барабанная дробь
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

rufar de tambores
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ড্রাম রোল
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

roulement de tambour
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Roll drum
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Trommelwirbel
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ドラムロール
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

드럼 롤
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Muter drum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

drum roll
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

டிரம் ரோல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रम रोल
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Tamburlu rulo
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

rullo di tamburi
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

werble
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

барабанний дріб
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tobele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τυμπανοκρουσίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drum roll
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trumvals
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trommevirvel
5 millions of speakers

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2 QUOTES WITH «DRUM ROLL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drum roll.
1
Tony Bennett
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
2
Sharon Kay Penman
Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRUM ROLL»

Discover the use of drum roll in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drum roll and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style ...
6.4. The. Colon. OPERATOR'S. MANUAL. In. Plain. English. A colon consists of two dots, one above the other. The colon is like a drum roll announcing what will follow. A complete sentence may end with a colon if there is a summary, idea, ...
Jeff Anderson, 2005
2
IMovie 3 & IDVD: The Missing Manual
Forward View 1 of 21 items selected frlame t§ Dave's Faves 5 Cat Meow 5^ Crickets w1 Crowd Applause {i£ Crowd Clapping 8 Dog Bark 5 Drum Roll <* Footsteps 9 Forest Rain \j Skywalker Sound Effects , * Standard Sound Effects £ Alarm.
David Pogue, 2003
3
Student Instrumental Course Drum Student: Level I
[f.p.ff and pp] KOM A TOD MCI R R Pickup^ LRLRL L R L R L > LR 3 4 L R Concert Bass Drum Roll A roll may be played on the Concert Bass Drum by using a double ended beater and rapidly turning the wrist so that both ends strike the drum ...
Feldstein, Sandy, Weber, Fred
4
Beyond Safety Accountability
My teacher held me accountable for learning the drum roll. Besides demonstrating this basic percussion element, he didn't give me much advice about how to learn this relatively complex drum-stick maneuver. Each week he asked me to show ...
E. Scott Geller, 2001
5
Russia On Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema
In Sergei Ovcharov's Drum Roll the 'hero' has no incentive or will of his own. As the film begins a drummer, a naive, good young man, a Buster Keaton type character, is getting drunk with his colleagues from the funeral orchestra. During the ...
Birgit Beumers, 1999
6
Simple Steps to Snare Drum
STEP SEVENTEEN *** THE SNARE DRUM ROLL *** We are now going to learn how to play a snare drum roll. The purpose of the roll is to sustain the sound over the value of a written note. The first exercise is called the BOUNCE STROKE.
Cirone, Anthony J.
7
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe
Drum roll longer. MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER Map 217 p.158 Resembles juvenile Great Spotted, but black face marks not joined; red cap lacks black border. Note pink, not red, vent and streaked flanks. Drum roll weak, infrequent.
Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, P. A. D. Hollum, 2001
8
Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason: Grooves, Beats and ...
Over four bars, create the drum roll. The easiest way to do it is to draw a single beat at the very start of the loop, then set snap to 1/16 and just use copy and paste to create the rest. Reason will automatically paste a note exactly every 1/16 of a ...
Hollin Jones, 2006
9
The Encyclopedia of Boss DR-5 Chord Patterns
Table Of Contents 4/4 Shuffle Drum Riffs Rhythm Rim Snare Snare Lead-in Drum Roll Delta Blues Jazz High Hat Snare Intro Snaps Intro Strum Outro 134 Rhythm w/ride cymbal 134 134 Rim Snare w/ride cymbal 134 135 Snare Lead-in w/ride ...
James D. Parham, 2002
10
Handbook of Troubleshooting Plastics Processes: A Practical ...
The building roll is not in contact with the surface drum and it is held off the drum roll there by creating a gap. The building roll/ pneumatic shaft are being axial driven by a separate drive motor and coupling system that moves laterally with the ...
John R. Wagner, Jr., 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRUM ROLL»

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Vandyke has Cup ambitions for Astronomos
Patience has also be integral in Vandyke's management of stablemate Drum Roll. The three-year-old was in the mix for the Queensland Derby ... «Bloodstock.com.au, Jul 15»
2
Miss Piggy Teases Muppets Comeback
DRUM ROLL PLEASE...Big news to announce from Miss Piggy and Sky One ... Posted by The Muppets on Thursday, 9 July 2015. It follows the success of the ... «98FM, Jul 15»
3
NRL SuperCoach Last Word ahead of round 18: Hymel Hunt heads …
AFTER much number crunching and weighing up of the permutations, we've determined that the cheapie of the week is … (drum roll) … «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Weekend Best Bets
DRUM ROLL. Race 4, No. 6. Is a progressive staying type who won either side of his credible Rosehill effort in recent weeks. The wet track ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
Michael Jordan chimes into DeAndre Jordan emoji war, wins with goat
Until *drum roll* ESPN's Marc Stein reported on Wednesday (hours before the battle) that the Clippers were making one last pitch to keep him. «Comcast SportsNet Chicago, Jul 15»
6
Trainer Kris Lees makes triple play for more winners at Randwick
Drum Roll has finally learnt how to be a racehorse, according to trainer David Vandyke. “The penny has dropped with him now, he knows what ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
7
Chomp on the bar
That's your (drum roll…) Time Signature. This is what tells you the size of the bar. How often the rhythmic pattern in the song repeats. How many ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Sounding off on savory BBQ favorites
Well, with some 200 responses on Facebook, I definitively can state categorically that your favorite place is (drum roll) all of them! Here are ... «Ocala, Jul 15»
9
Skyscrapers invade Seattle, changing skyline forever
... stalls, 562,130 square feet of retail space, and — drum roll — 9,157,867 square feet of commercial space, Puget Sound Scape reports. «MyNorthwest.com, Jul 15»
10
Being a Sullivan commissioner is a pretty sweet gig
All that's required of them is to sit in a comfortable chair and every now and then say, “Aye” or “Nay.” They are — drum roll here — Sullivan ... «Kingsport Times News, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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