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Meanings of tympan in English
A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.
Synonyms
Examples for "drum"
Examples for "drum"
1
The New South Wales government said its drum lines were more humane.
2
Authorities said the drum lines would remain in place for a week.
3
Dry the pieces in the drum, and the yarn in the stove.
4
Riley joined the following year after a mere month of drum lessons.
5
State of Mind talked to Sam Wicks about the state of drum'n'bass.
Usage of tympan in English
1
Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying, setting gauges, and other details explained.
2
The composition, which fills the tympan of the scarcely-pointed arch, represents Christ surrounded by the twelve Apostles.
3
Over the cylinder is supported a diaphragm or tympan T, provided with a conical mouthpiece M for speaking into.
4
It consisted of a table, along which the forme of type, furnished with a tympan and frisket, was pushed by hand.
5
The tympan of the duplicating machine is sometimes made uneven so that the impression of a typewriter is still further carried out.
6
The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.
7
The ornament is nearly confined to the tympan over the portal, the capitals of columns, and to the choir with its seven absidal chapels.
Frequent collocations
Translations for tympan
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Tympan through the time