Definition of tom-tom in English:

tom-tom

noun ˈtɒmtɒmˈtɑm ˌtɑm

1A medium-sized cylindrical drum, of which one to three may be used in a drum kit.
（套鼓中的）中型圆鼓
Example sentencesExamples
- He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit.
- The opening song marches back and forth, back and forth on the tom-toms, while guitar chords are smacked awake.
- There's still no sign of synthesizers, but there are lots of tom-toms.
- The piece, scored for four percussionists, is played by the group using a big array of gongs, tam-tams, tom-toms, suspended brake drums and so on, but is neither bombastic nor boring.
- The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar, his vocal and a tom-tom (all recorded onto one track), with Harrison playing a tamboura.
- Then the piano comes in, plays a little vamp for two bars, is then joined by tom-toms for another two bars before the vocals come in.
- However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated.
- Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom, a picture of a different animal is shown.
- As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
- Suddenly he kneels down, places the remaining snare, cymbal, and tom-tom on the floor in a cluster, and begins to play his ‘broken’ drums, more interested in the set that he's created than in the one we bought.
- The snare drum takes precedence as the piano enters; tom-toms come in when the sax solo begins.
- She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals.
- One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form, though any number of peripheral instruments may be added by the player.
1. 1.1 A drum beaten with the hands, associated with North American Indian, African, or Eastern cultures.
  Example sentencesExamples
  We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick.
  Meanwhile, water is blowing in through the tepee's door, drenching the tom-toms and blankets.
  They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos.
  Indian ceremonies, tom-toms, cheers, costumes, and painted faces may be part of their traditions.
  Thai cultural activities are also part of the program, and this includes learning musical instruments and tom-toms.
  He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute, tenor and alto sax, police whistle, African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve.
  She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms.

verb ˈtɒmtɒm

[with object]Indian

Proclaim or boast about.
the government tom-tommed a 40 per cent turnout of the state's electorate
Example sentencesExamples
- She's the latest to join the bandwagon, tom-tomming to the world the benefits of going veggie.
- They tom-tom schemes which citizens seldom hear later.
- However, nobody should have the temerity to mix any of these millions of potential sources of pharmaceuticals with modern medicinal products and tom-tom it as a discovery.
- Any amount of tom-tomming about the city being a hi-tech one cannot hide the fact that we are indeed living in a jungle.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Hindi ṭam ṭam, Telugu ṭamaṭama, of imitative origin.

Tom from Middle English:
Like jack, Tom has long been used to represent an ordinary man. The expression Tom, Dick, and Harry, meaning ‘a large number of ordinary people’, first appeared in an 18th-century song: ‘Farewell, Tom, Dick, and Harry. Farewell, Moll, Nell, and Sue’. During the 19th century the British army offered specimens of completed official forms using the name Thomas Atkins for the fictitious enlisted man. From the 1880s Rudyard Kipling helped popularize Tommy as a name for the ordinary and much-exploited British soldier. His poem ‘Tommy’ (1892) contained such lines as ‘O it's Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy go away” / But it's “Thank you, Mr Atkins,” when the band begins to play’. The ‘tommy’ in tommy gun is not an anonymous private soldier, but the US army officer John T. Thompson, who conceived the idea of this type of sub-machine gun and financed its development. The designer, O. V. Payne, insisted in 1919 that it be called the Thompson gun, but by the late 1920s it had been domesticated as the tommy gun. In the mid 16th century a tomboy was actually a boy, specifically a rough or boisterous one. The word was applied to a girl who enjoys rough activities traditionally associated with boys at the end of that century. The cylindrical drum called the tom-tom is a different word, from Hindi tạm tạm. It came over to Britain in the 1690s.

Definition of tom-tom in US English:

tom-tom

nounˈtɑm ˌtɑmˈtäm ˌtäm

1A medium-sized cylindrical drum used in jazz bands, etc.
（套鼓中的）中型圆鼓
Example sentencesExamples
- Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom, a picture of a different animal is shown.
- The snare drum takes precedence as the piano enters; tom-toms come in when the sax solo begins.
- However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated.
- One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form, though any number of peripheral instruments may be added by the player.
- She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals.
- Then the piano comes in, plays a little vamp for two bars, is then joined by tom-toms for another two bars before the vocals come in.
- The opening song marches back and forth, back and forth on the tom-toms, while guitar chords are smacked awake.
- The piece, scored for four percussionists, is played by the group using a big array of gongs, tam-tams, tom-toms, suspended brake drums and so on, but is neither bombastic nor boring.
- The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar, his vocal and a tom-tom (all recorded onto one track), with Harrison playing a tamboura.
- Suddenly he kneels down, places the remaining snare, cymbal, and tom-tom on the floor in a cluster, and begins to play his ‘broken’ drums, more interested in the set that he's created than in the one we bought.
- He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit.
- There's still no sign of synthesizers, but there are lots of tom-toms.
- As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
1. 1.1 A drum beaten with the hands, associated with North American Indian, African, or Eastern cultures.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute, tenor and alto sax, police whistle, African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve.
  Meanwhile, water is blowing in through the tepee's door, drenching the tom-toms and blankets.
  They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos.
  She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms.
  Indian ceremonies, tom-toms, cheers, costumes, and painted faces may be part of their traditions.
  Thai cultural activities are also part of the program, and this includes learning musical instruments and tom-toms.
  We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Hindi ṭam ṭam, Telugu ṭamaṭama, of imitative origin.

词汇	tom-tom
释义	Definition of tom-tom in English: tom-tom noun ˈtɒmtɒmˈtɑm ˌtɑm 1A medium-sized cylindrical drum, of which one to three may be used in a drum kit. （套鼓中的）中型圆鼓 Example sentencesExamples He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit. The opening song marches back and forth, back and forth on the tom-toms, while guitar chords are smacked awake. There's still no sign of synthesizers, but there are lots of tom-toms. The piece, scored for four percussionists, is played by the group using a big array of gongs, tam-tams, tom-toms, suspended brake drums and so on, but is neither bombastic nor boring. The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar, his vocal and a tom-tom (all recorded onto one track), with Harrison playing a tamboura. Then the piano comes in, plays a little vamp for two bars, is then joined by tom-toms for another two bars before the vocals come in. However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated. Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom, a picture of a different animal is shown. As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales. Suddenly he kneels down, places the remaining snare, cymbal, and tom-tom on the floor in a cluster, and begins to play his ‘broken’ drums, more interested in the set that he's created than in the one we bought. The snare drum takes precedence as the piano enters; tom-toms come in when the sax solo begins. She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals. One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form, though any number of peripheral instruments may be added by the player. 1.1 A drum beaten with the hands, associated with North American Indian, African, or Eastern cultures. Example sentencesExamples We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick. Meanwhile, water is blowing in through the tepee's door, drenching the tom-toms and blankets. They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos. Indian ceremonies, tom-toms, cheers, costumes, and painted faces may be part of their traditions. Thai cultural activities are also part of the program, and this includes learning musical instruments and tom-toms. He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute, tenor and alto sax, police whistle, African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve. She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms. verb ˈtɒmtɒm [with object]Indian Proclaim or boast about. the government tom-tommed a 40 per cent turnout of the state's electorate Example sentencesExamples She's the latest to join the bandwagon, tom-tomming to the world the benefits of going veggie. They tom-tom schemes which citizens seldom hear later. However, nobody should have the temerity to mix any of these millions of potential sources of pharmaceuticals with modern medicinal products and tom-tom it as a discovery. Any amount of tom-tomming about the city being a hi-tech one cannot hide the fact that we are indeed living in a jungle. Origin Late 17th century: from Hindi ṭam ṭam, Telugu ṭamaṭama, of imitative origin. Tom from Middle English: Like jack, Tom has long been used to represent an ordinary man. The expression Tom, Dick, and Harry, meaning ‘a large number of ordinary people’, first appeared in an 18th-century song: ‘Farewell, Tom, Dick, and Harry. Farewell, Moll, Nell, and Sue’. During the 19th century the British army offered specimens of completed official forms using the name Thomas Atkins for the fictitious enlisted man. From the 1880s Rudyard Kipling helped popularize Tommy as a name for the ordinary and much-exploited British soldier. His poem ‘Tommy’ (1892) contained such lines as ‘O it's Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy go away” / But it's “Thank you, Mr Atkins,” when the band begins to play’. The ‘tommy’ in tommy gun is not an anonymous private soldier, but the US army officer John T. Thompson, who conceived the idea of this type of sub-machine gun and financed its development. The designer, O. V. Payne, insisted in 1919 that it be called the Thompson gun, but by the late 1920s it had been domesticated as the tommy gun. In the mid 16th century a tomboy was actually a boy, specifically a rough or boisterous one. The word was applied to a girl who enjoys rough activities traditionally associated with boys at the end of that century. The cylindrical drum called the tom-tom is a different word, from Hindi tạm tạm. It came over to Britain in the 1690s. Definition of tom-tom in US English: tom-tom nounˈtɑm ˌtɑmˈtäm ˌtäm 1A medium-sized cylindrical drum used in jazz bands, etc. （套鼓中的）中型圆鼓 Example sentencesExamples Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom, a picture of a different animal is shown. The snare drum takes precedence as the piano enters; tom-toms come in when the sax solo begins. However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated. One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form, though any number of peripheral instruments may be added by the player. She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals. Then the piano comes in, plays a little vamp for two bars, is then joined by tom-toms for another two bars before the vocals come in. The opening song marches back and forth, back and forth on the tom-toms, while guitar chords are smacked awake. The piece, scored for four percussionists, is played by the group using a big array of gongs, tam-tams, tom-toms, suspended brake drums and so on, but is neither bombastic nor boring. The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar, his vocal and a tom-tom (all recorded onto one track), with Harrison playing a tamboura. Suddenly he kneels down, places the remaining snare, cymbal, and tom-tom on the floor in a cluster, and begins to play his ‘broken’ drums, more interested in the set that he's created than in the one we bought. He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit. There's still no sign of synthesizers, but there are lots of tom-toms. As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales. 1.1 A drum beaten with the hands, associated with North American Indian, African, or Eastern cultures. Example sentencesExamples He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute, tenor and alto sax, police whistle, African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve. Meanwhile, water is blowing in through the tepee's door, drenching the tom-toms and blankets. They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos. She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms. Indian ceremonies, tom-toms, cheers, costumes, and painted faces may be part of their traditions. Thai cultural activities are also part of the program, and this includes learning musical instruments and tom-toms. We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick. Origin Late 17th century: from Hindi ṭam ṭam, Telugu ṭamaṭama, of imitative origin.
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