What's the difference between buzz and murmur?

Buzz


Definition:

  • (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.

Murmur


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
  • (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.
  • (v. i.) To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.
  • (v. i.) To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against.
  • (v. t.) To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (2) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
  • (3) In the reported case the murmur grew in the beginning and then disappeared spontaneously.
  • (4) The following factors of these patients were analyzed: age, sex, civil status, socio-economic level, occupation, family antecedents, personal antecedents, smoking, alcoholism, presence of cardiac murmurs, arrhythmias, and electrocardiogram.
  • (5) The clinical history of recurrent bronchitis and dyspnoea during exercise, the presence of right parasternal murmur with normal heart size and normal blood gases justified the execution of an arteriovenous thoracic angiography which revealed the presence of a cirsoid aneurysm supplied by the internal and external mammary arteries.
  • (6) We report a case of a 17 year old boy who was referred for evaluation of a large anterior mediastinal mass, causing dyspnea and cough and resulting in a harsh systolic murmur.
  • (7) Although the continuous murmur is an unusual sign in patients with pulmonary embolism, its auscultation is often quite distinctive, and its appearance may lead to more definitive diagnostic studies when the presentation or associated clinical findings are nonspecific.
  • (8) The patient was asymptomatic and a heart murmur and abnormal electrocardiogram were discovered incidentally.
  • (9) Thus, the murmur of MR derives its prognostic significance from integration of multiple clinical, radiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics.
  • (10) Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs developed in shielded patients at a later date, they required less vigorous treatment (ie, indomethacin), and they had shorter hospitalizations (74 v 85 days; P less than .05).
  • (11) Healthy women students who asked for oral contraceptives were carefully examined to ascertain whether they had a cardiac murmur.
  • (12) The clinical picture was relatively nonspecific, and 32% of the patients had no heart murmurs initially.
  • (13) Of the total 47 episodes, carditis was manifested by a significant murmur without previous RF or any known rheumatic heart disease in 40%; change in the character of a murmur under observation or the appearance of a new murmur in 15%; and acute pericarditis in 19%.
  • (14) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
  • (15) A 59-year-old woman hospitalised because of dyspnea and a heart murmur in a context of pyrexia was found to have evidence of obstruction of the pulmonary arterial system, clearly defined by ultrasonography, catheterisation and angiography and Imatron scan.
  • (16) All murmurs contained dominant frequencies that varied with time.
  • (17) Immediately after the implantation of a temporary transvenous right ventricular pacemaker, a high-pitched systolic musical murmur was heard at the lower left sternal border.
  • (18) Six patients had no audible murmur; four had grade 1 to 2 innocent murmurs.
  • (19) We correlated the intensity and timing of murmur with maximal flow velocity, acceleration time and other parameters.
  • (20) The patient presented with severe angina pectoris and the main physical findings were absence of the closing click of the prosthetic valve and the presence of systolic and diastolic aortic murmurs.