Word Meanings - HUMMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

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• BUZZ
  To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our
• BUZZER
  One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer. And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death. Shak.
• DRONY
  Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• EMITTENT
  Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• BUZZSAW
  A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed. according to; akin to OS.& OFries. bi, be, D. bij, OHG. bi, G. bie, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr.. E. prefix be- is orig.the same word. pref. 1. In the neighborhood of;
• DRONKELEWE
  Given to drink; drunken. Chaucer.
• BUZZARD
  A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera. Note: The Buteo vulgaris is the common buzzard of Europe. The American species (of which the most common are B. borealis, B. Pennsylvanicus, and B. lineatus) are
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• DRONE
  The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden. 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• POLYEDRON
  See POLYHEDRON
• TRIAKISOCTAHEDRON
  A trigonal trisoctahedron.
• RHOMBOHEDRON
  A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
• TETRAHEDRON
  A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles. Note: In crystallography, the regular tetrahedron is regarded as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron. Regular tetrahedron , a solid bounded by four equal equilateral triangles; one
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• RHODODENDRON
  A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
• ANDRON
  The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.
• TRIHEDRON
  A figure having three sides.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• PENTAHEDRON
  A solid figure having five sides.