Results for “鼓”

to summon one's courage

a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal) / blast (in blast furnace) / bellows / to draw air using bellows

a blast furnace (in modern times) / a draft assisted furnace for smelting metals

drumbeat / drum rhythm / drumming pattern

(idiom) (of a pocket, pouch etc) full and bulging

lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom) / fig. to cease / to give in

(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster

Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx 咽[yān] to the tympanic cavity 鼓室[gǔ shì] of the middle ear) / auditory tube

drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)

tom-tom (drum)

round and bulging / rotund / protruding

to advocate vociferously

bass drum

timpani

snare drum

to put strings on the zither, then play it (line from a Ming dynasty text by 劉伯溫|刘伯温[Liú Bó wēn]) / (fig.) to play music

toner cartridge

to echo what sb said / to back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)

to raise a storm / to stir up trouble / to instigate

rattle drum / pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)

to beat a drum

to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back

beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)

to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back

lit. to beat a gong / fig. to irritate sb / a provocation

to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)

lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom) / fig. encouragement to study or progress

lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom) / fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence

drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper

cajón (musical instrument)

small drum for marking time

drum kit

lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom) / appropriate relation between the different parts / closely interrelated

see 歡欣鼓舞|欢欣鼓舞[huān xīn gǔ wǔ]

seething / fuming

hydraulic bellows / water-driven ventilation (for metal smelting furnace)

percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)

(neologism) (slang) to have sex

drum kit (Tw)

lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face