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humite |
hummel |
hummeler |
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humming
| humming bird
| humming bird's trumpet
| humming top
| hummingbird
| hummingbird moth
humming (root: hum)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun humming has 2 senses
- humming(n = noun.event) hum - a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic" is a kind of noise
- humming(n = noun.act) Array - the act of singing with closed lips; Array is a kind of singing, vocalizing
Derived forms verb hum4, verb hum2
Derived form verb hum1
CIDE DICTIONARY
humming, a.
Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing. [1913 Webster]
humming, n.
A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
humming
bel canto, birring, bombilation, bombinating, bombination, booming, bravura, burring, busy, buzzing, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, droning, folk singing, fussy, hopping, hum, hustling, intonation, lively, low rumbling, lyricism, operatic singing, popping, purring, scat, scat singing, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, thrumming, tonic sol-fa, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, whirring, whizzing, yodel, yodeling
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