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hum

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hum , high and the most prominent peak of the Laško region, is situated on the Savinja river's left bank. For ages, its foothills have been giving a shelter to the old castle under which thermal water has been pumped from the springs. There is a wide view ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES humming bird hum/whistle a tune ▪ She was humming a little tune to herself. the roar/rumble/hum of traffic ▪ The only noise was the distant rumble of traffic on the coastal road. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., hommen "make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment," later hummen "to buzz, drone" (early 15c.), probably of imitative origin. Sense of "sing with closed lips" is first attested late 15c.; that of "be busy and active" is 1884, perhaps on analogy ...

Usage examples of hum.

He grew smaller and smaller as the gulf between them expanded, his aimless humming fading until he disappeared altogether.

She laughed, and struggled to hum along through her mouthpiece and the constant rush of air the aqualung forced on her.

He is still alive, and somewhere wearily goes up and down the stairs of strange houses, stares somewhere at clean-scoured parquet floors and carefully tended araucarias, sits for days in libraries and nights in taverns, or lying on a hired sofa, listens to the world beneath his window and the hum of human life from which he knows that he is excluded.

All I needed was for Heintz or Arista or Colonel Marquez to show up, humming a Hawaiian melody.

Regular, mechanical, but somehow also a natural hum with the asymphony of bees on the swarm.

He would slump in his chair as Aunty Em threw pots about the stove, spilling, burning, humming hymns to herself.

It was bad enough having someone in the bakery with me some of the time, so I could teach him what to do and keep an eye on him while he did it: humming was pushing it.

His eyes were closed, and he hummed tunelessly in time to the throbbing biofeedback from his ship.

The virusteel deckplating hummed with the distant throb of idling Bussard drives.

The black cloud became a massive shroud of living insects, buzzing and humming in an infernal chorus.

As he rode he thought now and again of Ian, perhaps in Edinburgh according to his word of mouth, but perhaps, despite that word, on board some ship that should place him in the Low Countries, from which he might travel into France and to Paris and that group of Jacobites humming like a byke of bees around a prince, the heir of all the Stewarts.

The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.

Walking home along the river wall, with the singing of the larks and thrushes, the rush of waters, the humming of the chafers in his ears, he felt that he would make something fine of this subject.

I could see that something similar was happening to my friends and our conversation about happiness and perils of refugee life degenerated into humming silly songs with Chi and not really paying much attention to what was being said.

It is all so fast yet his brain has time to process a number of sensations - the touch of her velvet humming in his fingertips, the scolding bump her hip gave him, his indignation at her clunky shoes and the people who stripped the staircase of its banister, all precisely layered in his mind.