hum
US: /ˈhəm/
UK: /hˈʌm/
UK: /hˈʌm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
hum /hʌm/
- danh từ
- (từ lóng) (như) humbug
- (từ lóng) (như) humbug
- danh từ ((cũng) haw)
- tiếng vo ve, tiếng o o (sâu bọ...); tiếng kêu rền (máy)
- tiếng ầm ừ, lời nói ậm à ậm ừ, lời nói ấp úng
- hums and ha's: lời nói ậm à ậm ừ
- (từ lóng) mùi khó ngửi, mùi thối
- nội động từ
- kêu vo ve, kêu o o (sâu bọ...); kêu rền (máy)
- ấm ứ, ầm ừ, ấp úng; nói lúng búng
- to hum and ha (haw): mói ậm à, ậm ừ, nói lúng búng
- ngậm miệng ngân nga
- (thông tục) hoạt động mạnh
- to make things hum: đẩy mạnh các hoạt động
- (từ lóng) khó ngửi, thối
- ngoại động từ
- ngậm miệng ngân nga
- ngậm miệng ngân nga
- thán từ
- hừ (do dự, không đồng ý)
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb (-mm-)
1 to sing a tune with your lips closed: [V] She was humming softly to herself. + He began to hum along with the music. + [VN] What's that tune you're humming?
2 [V] to make a low continuous sound: The computers were humming away. + The overhead wires hummed with power.
3 [V] (informal) to be full of activity: The streets were beginning to hum with life. + The whole room was humming now. + Things were beginning to hum.
Idioms: hum and haw (BrE) (AmE hem and haw) (informal) to take a long time to make a decision or before you say sth: We hummed and hawed for weeks before deciding to buy the house.
+ noun [sing.] ~ (of sth) a low continuous sound: the hum of bees / traffic / voices + The room filled with the hum of conversation.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 buzz, drone, thrum, murmur, whirr, purr, vibrate, Technical bombinate or bombilate:
I want to smell the wild flowers and hear the bees hum once again.
2 bustle, stir, be active, move briskly, Colloq tick (over):
Within three months of completion, the new plant was humming.
3 intone:
I said, 'Do you know your rock guitar is keeping me awake?', and he replied, 'No, man, but if you hum it I'll try to play it.'
n.
4 buzz, buzzing, drone, droning, thrum, thrumming, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, whirr, whirring, purr, purring, vibration:
From the other room came the hum of conversation.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
faint, soft | low | high-pitched | constant, continuous, steady
I could hear the constant hum of distant traffic.
| background
VERB + HUM
hear
PREP.
~ of
the background hum of the air-conditioning
Concise English dictionary
hummed|humming|humshʌm
noun
+the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity
+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
+a humming noise
verb
+sing with closed lips
+be noisy with activity
+sound with a monotonous hum
+make a low continuous sound
