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DrugBank
DrugBank is a curated online database combining drug chemistry and clinical data with protein targets, interactions, and mechanisms, first released in 2006 by the University of Alberta.
Drugged driving
Drugged driving is operating a vehicle while impaired by illicit, prescription, or over-the-counter drugs besides or alongside alcohol, and it is illegal in all 50 US states.
Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945
Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945: India's core subordinate legislation under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, governing licensing, import, manufacture, sale, labelling and Schedules (H, H1, X, M, Y) for drugs and cosmetics.
Drugstore beetle
Drugstore beetle (Stegobium paniceum), also called biscuit or bread beetle, a small anobiid stored-product pest worldwide; striated wing covers, 3-segmented antennal club, feeds on drugs, foods, and museum specimens.
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 Gus Van Sant black comedy crime drama starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch, adapted from James Fogle's autobiographical novel about pharmacy-robbing addicts in 1970s Portland, Oregon; it won NSFC Best Film and Independent Spirit Awards.
Drugstore June
Drugstore June (2024) is an American comedy directed by Nicholaus Goossen, co-written with and starring Esther Povitsky as an influencer investigating her pharmacy's robbery; limited release Feb 23, 2024, Shout! Studios.
Druid
A druid (Druí) was a member of the learned class of Iron Age Celtic societies in Gaul and Britain, described by Julius Caesar as priest, judge, and teacher.
Druid (Dungeons & Dragons)
Druid (Dungeons & Dragons): nature-themed spellcaster class, first appearing in Eldritch Wizardry, defined by Wisdom spellcasting and Wild Shape; 2024 Player's Handbook revised it with Bonus Action Wild Shape, temporary hit points, and Land, Moon, Sea, and Stars circles.
Druid Theatre Company
Druid Theatre Company is a professional touring theater company founded in Galway, Ireland, in 1975 by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen, and Mick Lally, the first professional Irish theater company outside Dublin.
Druidry (modern)
Druidry, also known as Neo-druidism or Modern Druidry, is a contemporary nature spirituality inspired by the Iron Age Druids, dedicated to environmentalism and holding no fixed dogma.
Drukqs
Drukqs is Aphex Twin's (Richard D. James) 2001 double album on Warp, 30 tracks of drill'n'bass and programmed prepared-piano pieces; first Aphex Twin album since 1996, Metascore 66, first vinyl reissue 2026.
Drum
Drum: a membranophone percussion instrument sounding via a stretched head over a shell; includes timpani, snare, bass, frame drums, tabla, and electronic drum kits.
Drum (container)
A drum, or oil drum, is a cylindrical steel, plastic, or fiberboard container for shipping liquids and solids in industrial quantities, the standard size holding 55 gallons.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (DnB, jungle) is a UK electronic dance genre from the early 1990s rave scene, defined by 160–180 BPM breakbeats, deep basslines, sound system roots, and subgenres like liquid and neurofunk.
Drum brake
A drum brake is a vehicle brake in which brake shoes press against the inside of a rotating drum; dominant through the 20th century, it remains common on rear axles and heavy trucks.
Drum Corps International
Drum Corps International (DCI), founded 1971-1972 by 13 corps, is the North American governing body for competitive drum and bugle corps, running a summer tour of nearly 100 events culminating in the World Championships in Indianapolis.
Drum kit
Drum kit (drum set, trap set): an arrangement of drums, cymbals, and percussion letting one seated player perform on several instruments at once. Created in the late nineteenth century; standardized in 1930s swing; central to jazz and rock.
Drum machine
Drum machine: electronic instrument generating and sequencing percussion sounds, also called rhythm box or boîte à rythmes. Spans the 1930s Rhythmicon, Linn LM-1, Roland TR-808/909, and modern analog, sample, FM, and physical-modeling machines.
Drum magazine
A drum magazine is a firearm magazine that stores cartridges in a circular arrangement inside a drum-shaped housing, holding many more rounds than a box magazine.
Drum magazine fiction
Drum magazine fiction is the short stories, serialized novels, and fiction-inflected journalism published in South Africa's Drum magazine from 1951, shaped by Sophiatown life and American hard-boiled style.
DRUM TAO
DRUM TAO (ドラム・タオ) is a Japanese wadaiko drumming group formed in 1993 in Aichi Prefecture, staging theatrical taiko shows for over 10 million people worldwide.
Drum-buffer-rope
Drum-buffer-rope, also known as Synchronous Manufacturing, is a Theory of Constraints production scheduling method that paces a plant at its constraint's rate, protects it with buffers, and throttles material release.
Drumanagh
Drumanagh promontory fort, an Iron Age coastal fort near Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Ireland, is the key site for Roman contact with Ireland, with Dressel 20 amphora sherds, a 2,000-year-old fig, and the first intact Roman pot found in Ireland.
Drumeo
Drumeo is an online drum-lesson platform launched in 2012 by Musora Media of Abbotsford, British Columbia, offering the ten-level Drumeo Method, thousands of video lessons, and more than 100 instructors.
Drumlanrig
Drumlanrig Roman fort and annexe, SM13711, on the River Nith near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Antonine fort of AD 139-165, possibly Flavian, found as parchmarks in 1984, excavated by Time Team in 2004, deliberately slighted on abandonment.
Drumlin
A drumlin is an elongated oval hill of glacial sediment, mainly till, molded under flowing ice; its blunt end faces up-glacier, and drumlins occur in drumlin fields.
Drumline (film)
Drumline is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Charles Stone III, starring Nick Cannon as a Harlem street drummer who wins a scholarship to a historically Black university in Atlanta.
Drummond Company
Drummond Company is a privately held coal mining and natural resources company founded in Alabama in 1935, best known as Colombia's largest coal producer and exporter.
Drummond Matthews
Drummond Matthews (Drummond Hoyle Matthews) was a British marine geophysicist who with Fred Vine proposed in 1963 how magnetic stripes on the ocean floor record spreading.
Drums of Autumn
Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon's 1996 fourth Outlander novel, follows Jamie and Claire Fraser in 1767 North Carolina while daughter Brianna time-travels from 1969 to find them; adapted as Outlander season 4.