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DEFINITIONS OF: hum

1

v sing with closed lips

“She hummed a melody”
Type of:
sing
produce tones with the voice

v make a low continuous sound

“The refrigerator is humming”
Type of:
make noise, noise, resound
emit a noise

v sound with a monotonous hum

Synonyms:
thrum
Type of:
go, sound
make a certain noise or sound

v be noisy with activity

Synonyms:
buzz, seethe
Types:
pullulate, swarm, teem
be teeming, be abuzz
crawl
be full of
Type of:
be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

n a humming noise

“the hum of distant traffic”
Synonyms:
humming
Type of:
noise
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

n the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity

“there is a constant hum of military preparation”
Synonyms:
busyness
Type of:
action, activeness, activity
the state of being active
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