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# drumhead

noun (drumhead, drumheads)

«drumhead» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The drumhead is the tight skin or plastic sheet stretched across a drum, which is hit to make the sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, the skin of an animal is stretched over a drum to make its head

### Examples

- Tap the drumhead gently with your fingers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x1)
- The drumhead split when the drummer hit it too hard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x2)
- The old drum needed a new drumhead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «drumhead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumhead/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«drumhead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drumhead.html) on Mova free.