| 单词 | hum |
| 释义 | hum (once / 450 pages) vn To hum is to make a low, steady, singing sound with your mouth closed. If you don't know the words to a song on the radio, you can just hum along. Other hums are based on the musical hum, making a similar low, constant sound. Bees hum, an electric fan hums, and your car idling quietly also hums. A figurative way to hum is to be busy and loud: "The cafe always seemed to hum with activity." The word hum is imitative (it sounds like the noise it describes), but its earliest form was hommen, in the 1500s, meaning "make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment." WORD FAMILYhum: hummed, hummer, humming, hums+/hummer: hummers/humming: hummings USAGE EXAMPLESAt Jo-Ann Fabric, the sewing aisle, a beacon of immigrant industriousness, was humming. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) But the pharmacy business keeps humming along nicely, with comps rising 3.4 percent during the same time frame. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Sometimes, I would hum the sound of the keys as I tapped on the cardboard. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) 1v sing with closed lips She hummed a melody Hyper sing produce tones with the voice 2v make a low continuous sound The refrigerator is humming Hyper make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 3v sound with a monotonous hum Syn|Hyper thrum go, sound make a certain noise or sound 4v be noisy with activity Syn|Hypo|Hyper buzz, seethe pullulate, swarm, teem be teeming, be abuzz crawlbe full of be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5n a humming noise the hum of distant traffic Syn|Hyper humming noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 6n the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity there is a constant hum of military preparation Syn|Hyper busyness action, activeness, activity the state of being active HUM (once / 562825 pages) n WORD FAMILY HUM: HUMS USAGE EXAMPLESHUM 0.33 % The only large metro area with more options will be Chattanooga. Wall Street Journal(Oct 05, 2016) Where FUM had just come to pay HUM a short visit.— Rossetti, William Michael, The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Mo...(2010) To hum and haw; to hesitate in speech, also to delay, or be with difficulty brought to consent to any matter or business, HUMS. Grose, Francis, 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongu...(2010) n 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|Exp Al Faran, HUA, Harkat ul-Ansar, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, Movement of Holy Warriors FTO, foreign terrorist organization, terrorist group, terrorist organization a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
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