(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.
(v. t.) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
(v. t.) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
(v. t.) To sound with a "buzz".
(n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
(n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
(n.) The audible friction of voice consonants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(2) Walcott buzzed in a free-kick and when this dropped to Elneny his 20-yard effort was saved superbly by Jakupovic.
(3) "If I hear my phone buzz, I have to pull it out and look at it, and then I'm totally distracted...
(4) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
(5) Absorbed into the bloodstream through the lip, Snus has a softer but longer nicotine buzz than cigarettes.
(6) Internet chatrooms have been buzzing with messages condemning Tokyo's response, with some calling for a boycott of Japanese goods.
(7) There is already a buzz about the place and by eleven the players are already in the dressing room, just next to the manager's office.
(8) Medical effectiveness initiatives, outcomes research, and practice guidelines--the new buzz words for the 90s--will change the way health care services are delivered and allocated.
(9) Yet even after Buzz ran aground, the row with Facebook went on - and in retrospect, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg didn't trust Google not to be trying to build its own social network and using Facebook's social graph to do it.
(10) Live streaming from the main stages enabled viewers to watch sets in real time – and combining it with social media meant you could see where the buzz was and flip over to see the best music.
(11) Places such as Manchester, Newham, Lewisham and Liverpool buzz with desire to do things better.
(12) "I get back late from all these try-out gigs and the buzz keeps me awake.
(13) On the other hand, well: tablets, smartphones, DVD players, advanced sex toys that do something other than just buzz, cars that don't smell like foot disease, an abundance of stuff that makes life easier and more interesting.
(14) A few days later, the line stretched round the block for last year's SXSW buzz band Haim .
(15) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
(16) With his dying breath, Fred Ery identified Floyd "Buzz" Fay as his murderer.
(17) If I'm in a good mood it looks like Buzz Lightyear.
(18) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(19) He went on to conduct The Book Programme (1974-80), and buzzed around the world for Robinson's Travels (1977-79).
(20) Her hums on early awards buzz Speaking of Oscar contenders, it will be fascinating to see how Spike Jonze's latest movie pans out.
Buzzer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rats were trained to perform shuttle responses to a buzzer in four different situations: pseudoconditioning or D test (buzzers and footshocks presented at random), classical conditioning or DP test (buzzers and footshocks paired on every trial), avoidance without stimulus pairing or DC test (buzzer-shock intervals varied at random, shocks contingent upon non-emission of a shuttle response to the preceding buzzer), and standard two-way avoidance or DPC test (buzzers paired to shocks, but the latter omitted every time there was shuttling to the buzzer).
(2) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(3) In a second study, the lever-pressing response, which produced saline infusion and the buzzer, became available only subsequent to 5 sessions of pairing the buzzer with infusions of saline or alcohol.
(4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(5) Most of the remaining patients responded to a buzzer; nevertheless, its use needs to be carefully presented and supervised.
(6) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
(8) The child sleeps on a detector mechanism such as two separate metal mats that are connected with a buzzer alarm.
(9) The effect of stimulus compounding in classical conditioning was investigated by conditioning one group of rats to a compound CS consisting of a buzzer and light and then conditioning separate groups of rats to the individual elements of the compound CS.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When the final final buzzer went off, the Trail Blazers had become the fifth team to win game one on the road – a sign that the normally predictable first round of playoffs has the potential to surprise even the most jaded fan.
(11) Animals were trained to escape an aversive unconditioned stimulus (electric foot shock) within 3 s after being exposed to a conditioned stimulus (light and buzzer).
(12) The external stimulus was produced by a door buzzer (80 to 90 db).
(13) "They will be woken frequently throughout the night when other children are admitted, or the ward buzzer sounds, or the lights go on and off.
(14) It did not occur if visual and auditory stimuli were in opposite hemifields when a simultaneous visual stimulus caused a slight reduction of mean initial saccadic amplitude compared to the mean amplitude to buzzer alone.
(15) When a buzzer noise is used as a conditioned stimulus (CS) with these drugs as unconditioned stimuli, the buzzer CS acquires the properties of the drugs in increasing dopamine metabolism.
(16) Long, 23-foot jumper at the buzzer that doesn't go from LeBron James.
(17) Instead Portland's Lillard, last year's Rookie of the Year who has already gathered a reputation as one of the game's most clutch players, hit an astonishing three pointer at the buzzer to put up the Trail Blazers 99-98, ending the Houston Rockets season in dramatic fashion .
(18) Plus, as he showed against the Atlanta Hawks, he's still capable of an occasional jaw-dropping buzzer-beating game winner .
(19) Fingers on buzzers, here's your starter for 10: which well known BBC presenter tried out for University Challenge as a Cambridge University student, but failed to get into the team?
(20) But answering questions such as: "William Wilkinson's An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia inspired this author's most famous novel" requires a very sophisticated piece of programming that can return the answer quickly enough to beat your rival to the buzzer.