Significado

• Noun

  1. A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  2. A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  3. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
  4. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
  5. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  6. A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
  7. A tube.
  8. The hollow basal part of a feather.
  9. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  10. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  11. A waste receptacle.
  12. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  13. (obsolete) A jar.
  14. Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
  15. A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.

• Verb