Hum

Noun

 * 1) A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
 * 2) An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
 * 3) Busy activity, like a beehive's buzz

Verb

 * 1)  To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
 * We are humming happily along with the music.
 * 1)  To express of affect by humming
 * ''The hazers ominously hummed "We shall overcome" while they paddled the unruly pledges
 * 1)  To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
 * 2) * 1922,,  Chapter 2
 * A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
 * 1)  To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
 * 2)  To produce a low sounds blend continuously
 * 3)  To reek, smell bad.
 * 4)  To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.

Derived terms

 * hummer
 * hummingbird
 * humming-top

Related terms

 * humblebee

Synonyms

 * bumble
 * bustle
 * hustle
 * buzz
 * croon
 * whir

Adjectives for Hum
busy; murmurous; beelike; soft; bubbling; hideous; endless; peaceful; lily-muffled; dolorous; distant; discordant; hoarse; pleasant; sonorous; faint; musical; drowsy.

Verbs for Hum
endure—; heed—; ignore—; join in—; muffle—; perceive—; raise—; subdue—; — attracts; —bothers; —charms; —delights; —disturbs; —plagues; —waxes.

Thesaurus
Indian file, anthem, array, articulation, ballad, bank, bel canto, birdies, birr, blooping, blurping, bombilate, bombilation, bombinate, bombination, boom, booming, bravura, bum, burr, buzz, buzzing, carol, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chant, chirp, chirrup, choir, choral singing, chorus, coloratura, concatenation, connection, consecution, continue the same, continuum, course, croon, crooning, cycle, descant, descent, distortion, do-re-mi, drag along, drag on, drone, droning, endless belt, endless round, falter, feedback, file, filiation, flutter, fluttering, folk singing, gamut, gradation, halt, haw, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hissing, howling, hum and haw, humming, hymn, intonate, intonation, intone, lilt, line, lineage, low rumbling, lyricism, mammer, minstrel, monotone, motorboating, nexus, operatic singing, pendulum, periodicity, persist, pipe, plenum, powder train, prevail, progression, psalm, purr, purring, quaver, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rotation, roulade, round, routine, row, rumble, run, run through, scale, scat, scat singing, scratching, sequence, serenade, series, shake, shredding, sing, sing in chorus, singing, single file, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmizate, solmization, song, spectrum, squeals, stammer, static, string, stumble, stutter, succession, swath, thread, thrum, thrumming, tier, tonic sol-fa, train, tremolo, trill, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, vocal music, vocalization, vocalize, warble, warbling, whir, whirring, whistle, whistles, whiz, whizzing, windrow, woomping, wow, wowwows, yodel, yodeling

Etymology
From hommen "make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment," later (medieval English) hummen "to buzz, drone" (c.1420); akin to (medieval and modern) Dutch hommel 'humblebee', medieval German hummen 'to hum', probably ultimately of imitative origin

Noun

 * Arabic: همهمة
 * Bosnian: pjevušenje
 * Dutch: gebrom, geneurie


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Dutch: gebrom
 * Finnish:, , , , ,


 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * : המיה

Verb

 * Arabic: همهم
 * Bosnian: pjevušiti
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: neuriën, brommen
 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Polish: nucić
 * Romanian: fredona
 * Russian:


 * Czech:


 * Dutch: zoemen, brommen (depending on the species' precise sound)

Anagrams

 * MUH

Etymology 1
jocular abbreviation of humeur (cfr.)

Noun

 * 1) (good) mood

Etymology 2
onomatopoeia

Alternative forms

 * h'm

Interjection
hum!


 * 1) uttering to attract attention, without literal meaning

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) hillock
 * 2) barrow, tumulus mound of earth raised over a grave

Synonyms

 * glavica
 * brežuljak

Etymology 2
Unknown provenance.

Noun

 * 1)  arrogance

Synonyms

 * oholost