Vibrant: alternatives and connections

A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instr…

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.

To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum;…

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet

A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.

One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rap…

To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.

A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.

An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for makin…

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and…