Crossword-Solution: HUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hum | v. i. | To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. |
| Hum | v. i. | 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. |
| Hum | v. i. | To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem. |
| Hum | v. i. | To express satisfaction by a humming noise. |
| Hum | v. i. | To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition. |
| Hum | v. t. | To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune. |
| Hum | v. t. | To express satisfaction with by humming. |
| Hum | v. t. | To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug. |
| Hum | n. | A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz. |
| Hum | n. | Any inarticulate and buzzing sound |
| Hum | n. | The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry. |
| Hum | n. | A buzz or murmur, as of approbation. |
| Hum | n. | An imposition or hoax. |
| Hum | interj. | An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc. |
| Hum | interj. | A kind of strong drink formerly used. |
| Hum | interj. | Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HUM | anagram | HMU |
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Sentences with HUM (5)
Though in one sense a woman of the world, it was, after all, that world of daylight coteries and green carpets, wherein cattle form the passing crowd and winds the busy hum; where a quiet family of rabbits or hares lives on the other side of your party-wall, where your neighbour is everybody in the tything, and where calculation is confined to market-days.
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over.
From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer’s day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
Landry had sung her a ditty he heard in some theater on Third Avenue, about: “But there passed him a bright-eyed taxi With the girl of his heart inside.” Almost inaudibly Thea began to hum the air, though she was thinking of something serious, something that had touched her deeply.
All was silence in the dimly-lighted room, whilst the sound of the gavotte, the hum of distant talk and laughter, and the rumble of an occasional coach outside, only seemed to reach this palace of the Sleeping Beauty as the murmur of some flitting spooks far away.
Quotes with HUM (3)
No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just …
It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day — or as he sleeps — simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with m…
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 280 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).