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барабан — meaning in English

baraban

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English meaning

  • barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  • cylinder noun A solid or hollow object with straight parallel sides and a circular cross-section, like a tube or a can.
  • drum noun A percussion instrument with a tight skin stretched over a hollow body, played by striking.
  • reel noun A cylindrical device on which thread, film, cable, or fishing line is wound.
  • roll verb To move by turning over and over on a surface.

Senses

барабан is used for these senses in English:

  • barrel A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
  • cylinder A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
  • cylinder The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • drum (percussion instrument) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
  • drum Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
  • reel A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
  • roll A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

barrel — full definition

  1. noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  2. noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
  3. noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
  4. verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.

cylinder — full definition

  1. noun A solid or hollow object with straight parallel sides and a circular cross-section, like a tube or a can.
  2. noun The chamber in an engine in which a piston moves back and forth.
  3. noun A container shaped like a tube used to hold pressurized gas.

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