Crossword clues for hummed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hum \Hum\ (h[u^]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Humming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. G. hummen, D. hommelen. [root]15.]
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To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.
--P. Fletcher.Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep.
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To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.
The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums.
--Shak. [Cf. Hum, interj.] To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.
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To express satisfaction by a humming noise.
Here the spectators hummed.
--Trial of the Regicides.Note: Formerly the habit of audiences was to express gratification by humming and displeasure by hissing.
To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pasthum)
WordNet
See hum
n. the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation" [syn: busyness]
an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors]
a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic" [syn: humming]
Usage examples of "hummed".
Around him, Gyton hummed and made the mechanical sounds common to all military starships.
Earth, or the earthsong that still hummed in his ears when he was wrapped in silence, because she was there.
She hummed her strange music and moved the crook of her arm back and forth in a rocking motion, lifting Rhapsody off the ground as she did.
She closed her eyes and hummed her naming note, trying to discern the origin of the vibration.
He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.
It hummed very quietly, a hum which became gradually louder and deeper as it approached the ground, and which at an altitude of six inches became a heavy throb.
She looked rather distantly out of the window and hummed lightly to herself.
The distressed, insistent voice of the orderly hummed through the communicator.
Jonah suddenly hummed and crackled, and he felt the hair on the back of his neck rising as static electricity coursed through the room.
Airships hummed and buzzed high above their heads, but the streets themselves were quiet.
So instead he hummed a jaunty tune as the guards led him down the bleak hallway, whistling and joking the entire time.
Some still writhed or hummed or reflected iridescence from overhead spotlights.
Renewed fragrance, subtly different, filled the air and the worrystones hummed as if in response.
It opened itself, and it stood to fill the room, a colossal segmented thing, a massive spider-presence that hummed with power and sucked the light out of the air.
The avatar, the ragged man who spoke for it, hummed tunelessly as the information flooded its banks.