hum
IPA: hˈʌm
noun
- A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
- An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
- Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant odour.
- (dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
- (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
- (with article) A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
- A town in the central part of Istria, northwest Croatia, 7 km from Roč.
- (bridge) Initialism of highly unusual method: any of a class of contract bridge bidding systems that require advance preparation to contend with, and are usually restricted to the highest levels of tournament play.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- (transitive) To express by humming.
- (intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
- (intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
- (intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously
- (Britain, slang) To reek, smell bad.
- (transitive, UK, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
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Examples of "hum" in Sentences
- She hums a song in the kitchen.
- The hum is recorded as unchanging.
- He breaks the quietude by humming.
- On auscultation, a venous hum may be heard.
- He pushed in the key and the car made a soft hum.
- It's a pretty irritating and inconstant crackly hum.
- Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air.
- The automaton hummed with what could be interpreted as a snicker.
- The Bullfrog hops offstage and Ugly begins to hum the song to himself.
- The audience could hum along with the music and identify with the characters.
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