drumbeat

n.

1. The sound produced by beating a drum.
2. Vehement, persistent advocacy of a cause: "the drumbeat of criticism of the news media from the right" (Michael Pollan).

A family of Windows-based Web development systems from Macromedia that enabled non-programmers to create dynamic Web sites. Originally developed by Elemental Software, which Macromedia acquired in 1999, Drumbeat 2000 ASP provided a visual development environment for creating dynamic Web pages using Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASPs) and any Web server that supported ASPs. Drumbeat was later folded into Dreamweaver.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the sound made by beating a drum
  Synonym: rub-a-dub

Meaning #2: (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - trommehvirvel

Nederlands (Dutch)
trommelslag, ritme

Français (French)
n. - battement de tambour

Deutsch (German)
n. - Trommelschlag

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μουσ.) τυμπανισμός, κρούση τυμπάνων

Italiano (Italian)
battuta di tamburo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - batuque (m)

Русский (Russian)
барабанный бой

Español (Spanish)
n. - toque de tambor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - trumslag

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
鼓声, 拍击

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鼓聲, 拍擊

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 북치기, 북소리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 太鼓の音

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) النقر على الطبل, صوت النقر على الطبل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תיפוף‬

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