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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drummingnoun

    the act of playing drums

    "he practiced his drumming several hours every day"

Wiktionary

  1. drummingnoun

    The act of beating a drum.

ChatGPT

  1. drumming

    Drumming is the act of playing a drum or drums, which are musical instruments, by striking them with sticks, brushes, or hands, often to produce a rhythm or musical sound. It can also refer to any similar rhythmic sound or movement, especially done repetitively. Drumming is used in many different musical genres and can even be a form of therapeutic or social activity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Drumming

    of Drum

  2. Drummingnoun

    the act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DRUMMING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drumming is ranked #152628 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Drumming surname appeared 107 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Drumming.

    85% or 91 total occurrences were Black.
    7.4% or 8 total occurrences were White.
    4.6% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drumming in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drumming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of drumming in a Sentence

  1. Madeleine Dean:

    The only conclusion that I candraw, at least from that -- andperhaps maybe they realize --thereis no there, there, there are no buriedbodies, there arent anyscandals like the ones that themedia has been drumming out forsome time.

  2. Yann Morvan:

    We didn't want Aerodrums to be a fad. We didn't want it to be the gadget of the year and then it's forgotten, we wanted it to be a proper musical instrument that is introducing air drumming as a legitimate way to drum and keeps going, keeps improving until it's fine to air drum live, it's fine to record using air drums because it's a real musical instrument.

  3. Amesh Adalja:

    Anthrax is a zoonotic disease with human cases often tied to animal exposure. For example, multiple cases have occurred at African drumming events when individuals were exposed to animal drum skins that contained anthrax spores, because of the risk of spillover into humans, it is crucial to monitor animal anthrax outbreaks and delimit the exposure of humans while promptly administering post-exposure antibiotics to those exposed. It is also important to emphasize Anthrax is a major biowarfare threat and being prepared for outbreaks of animal origin directly enhances abilities to respond to a potential bioattack using anthrax.

  4. Ganesh Thami:

    The river beating the stones made drumming sounds that kept growing. I heard the sound of the boulders rolling with the water. It felt like an earthquake.

  5. Deborah Lipstadt:

    Leaders on the left and the right are using this phenomenon as a way of drumming up support, claiming theyre victims, i fear it will get far worse before it gets better.

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