Synonym: activate, busy, buzz, drone, murmur. Similar words: hump, human, humid, thumb, humor, exhume, humble, humbly. Meaning: [hʌm] n. 1. the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity 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 3. a humming noise. v. 1. sing with closed lips 2. be noisy with activity 3. sound with a monotonous hum 4. make a low continuous sound.
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31. A low business-like hum sounded from inside it.
32. It rises to a low hum again when they see it's only him.
33. The ward hums the way I beard a cotton mill hum once when the football team played a high school in California.
34. From outside he could hear the muted hum of London's traffic.
35. The electric light was burning and mixers and other equipment were making a steady hum.
36. When he walked out the door, the town seemed dim, insubstantial, and filled with an ominous low hum.
37. There was a constant hum of chatter, and the occasional laugh.
38. They heard a steady hum, which soon melted into a steady silence.
39. There was the hum of cars up on the main road. Conversation drifted over you as families sauntered by.
40. Meanwhile, in the rest of the room, the hum of productive work goes on.
41. Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
42. If you do not feel the tinkling, repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch.
43. However, while the voice of reason is presently peripheral, its steady hum may well be heard.
44. My second milestone was Sholay. My role though small, required detailed study. I was given the specially made costume and wig and also books of World War II which ex¬plained Hitler’s various gestures. I was even made to go through a trial attended by the writers as well, to ascertain whether I fitted into the role or not. The film was a super success and till date, people remember my dialogue, "Hum Angrezo ke zamane ke jailor hain". Asrani
45. The river made a little noise, a kind of quiet hum in the background.
46. The computerized equipment seemed to click, hum, and whir: efficiency augmented by an army of experts.
47. It was the kind of silence that was so complete it had a sort of hum, the noise of expectancy.
48. I got up to close it, and a faint, almost imaginary hum of traffic drifted up out of the valley.
49. The excitement up at the castle was just a distant hum down in the mews.
50. Hum of black machinery, humming hate and death and other hospital secrets.
51. Subconsciously I remembered then began to hum the Robinson Crusoe theme music.
52. The hum of voices is purpose ful; all are actively engaged.
53. Here the only sound was the faint hum of the air-filters overhead.
54. A tower is anchored in the rock with guy wires that hum in the wind.
55. Trickstick is based on a novel electrical effect,(Sentencedict) it uses the human body as an aerial to pick up mains hum.
56. Didn't she hear it, the drone, the hum, that awful, teasing, dreary hum?
57. So is the hum and whine, despite being muted further by extra sound-proofing.
58. Kawai's Trilby Cold comforts of a hotel room: the air-conditioning and fridge join forces for a chummy hum, barbershop-style.
59. Sometimes it would modulate to a hum and at others rise to a shriek according to how hard his heart was pumping.
60. It is a hum like the sound of crickets in the summer, a sound urging men to joy and mirth.
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