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Hum

noun
1.
The state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity.  Synonym: busyness.  "There is a constant hum of military preparation"
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.  Synonyms: Al Faran, Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, Harkat ul-Ansar, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, HUA, Movement of Holy Warriors.
3.
A humming noise.  Synonym: humming.
verb
(past & past part. hummed; pres. part. humming)
1.
Sing with closed lips.
2.
Be noisy with activity.  Synonyms: buzz, seethe.
3.
Sound with a monotonous hum.  Synonym: thrum.
4.
Make a low continuous sound.



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"Hum" Quotes from Famous Books



... chosen for this mission, would be notified. His companions, too, would hear of the selection; and often indulged, in their own grim humorous way, of reminding him of the fact! The man next to him at the table would softly and weirdly hum a strain from Chopin's Funeral March, setting its music to the solemn words, "Ten thousand dollars going ...
— The Greater Love • George T. McCarthy
... "that our strenuous life this Fall and Summer, living in the outdoors, has unfitted us for the hum-drum sort of existence that used to satisfy us. We seem to want some ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Florida - Or, Wintering in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope
... sail in and make this old island hum," he said, and a number of his neighbours, nothing loth to be made rich by magic—advocates, bankers and insular councillors—joined hands with ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... redolent of new-mown hay, fanned her pale cheek and feverish brow, and allayed her agitation and excitement. The perfect stillness, broken only by the lowing of the cattle in the adjoining pastures, by the drowsy hum of the dor-fly, or the rippling of the beck in the valley, further calmed her; and the soothing influence was completed by a contemplation of the serene heavens, wherein were seen the starry host, with the thin ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Things hum. Troops like ants all over the ground. In tents, in bivvies, in the open, everywhere. And the eternal chain of motor lorries bringing up ammunition and supplies. These one sees all over France. But ...
— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson


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