Dictionary Definition
hum
Noun
1 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]
2 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]
3 a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"
[syn: humming]
Verb
1 sing with closed lips; "She hummed a
melody"
3 sound with a monotonous hum [syn: thrum]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌm
Noun
Translations
tune created orally with lips closed
- Finnish: hyminä
- Russian: жужжание
indistinct sound resembling that produced by
humming
- Finnish: humina, hurina, surina, hyrinä, pörinä, porina
- Russian: жужжание
- ttbc Hebrew:
Verb
- To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- To smell bad.
- To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
Translations
to make sound with lips closed
- Dutch: neuriën
- Finnish: hymistä
- French: fredonner
- Russian: жужжать
Extensive Definition
Hum may refer to:
- Hum (sound), a sound produced with closed lips, or by machinery, insects, or other periodic motion
- The Hum, a phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of unknown origin which occurs in some geographic locations.
- Hum (band), a U.S. space-rock band
- Hum, Croatia, known as the smallest town in the world
- Hum (film), a 1991 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan
- Mains hum, an electric or electromagnetic phenomenon that causes a low frequency (50 or 60 Hz) audible signal
- Hum Mountain, a mountain in Serbia
- Land of Hum, an English translation of the Zahumlje region of modern Herzegovina
- Hum, a possible transliteration of the sixth syllable in Buddhist "Six syllable mantra" Om mani padme hum
- Hum., an abbreviation for Humanities
- HUM, Harakat ul-Mujahidin, an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan
hum in French: Hum
hum in Italian: HUM
hum in Japanese: ハム (曖昧さ回避)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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