(v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.
(v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.
(v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.
(v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.
(v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.
(v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune.
(v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming.
(v. t.) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
(n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.
(n.) Any inarticulate and buzzing sound
(n.) The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry.
(n.) A buzz or murmur, as of approbation.
(n.) An imposition or hoax.
(interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.
(interj.) A kind of strong drink formerly used.
(interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(2) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(3) Mononuclear cells were fractionated from human cord blood by affinity chromatography on immobilized peanut agglutinin, as previously described (Rosenberg et al., Hum Immunol 7:67, 1983).
(4) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(5) He shook his head from side to side, whispering or humming the same three-note tune.
(6) The apolipoprotein E3-Leiden variant has been shown to be associated with familial dysbetalipoproteinemia (FD) in a dominant manner (Havekes et al., Hum Genet 1986;73:157-163).
(7) The politics of football have long been accompanied by a background hum of corruption claims, but in recent times it has become a cacophony.
(8) Selling its own phone would mean it could make itself the background hum of many peoples' lives everywhere – and show adverts and collect data on its own terms.
(9) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
(10) Hollow-eyed children beg outside restaurants and cafes that hum with the chatter of shisha-smoking customers.
(11) Her hums on early awards buzz Speaking of Oscar contenders, it will be fascinating to see how Spike Jonze's latest movie pans out.
(12) That robs astronomy of one of its key recruiting tools: the chance to plant young scientists under the dish and let its hum capture their imagination.
(13) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
(14) He made politics great again in the sense of getting people to care instead of allowing it to hum softly in the background.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) "I wouldn't say this agreement was entirely ho-hum but it does not address the big ticket issues.
(17) And I think Stephen hummed and hah-ed in an embarrassed fashion.
(18) humming, whistling) for atonal melody, but that non-musicians could not use any effective strategies for melody coding.
(19) At the moment the noise is like a city humming away.
(20) Without the faintest idea what I was humming along to, my mother left me to my obsession with nothing more than a shrug.
Tum
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The DNA of tum- variant P35 was transfected into P815 cell line P1.HTR.
(2) Mutagen treatment of mouse P815 tumor cells produces tum- variants that are rejected by syngeneic mice because these variants express new surface antigens.
(3) We have isolated human and bovine cDNA clones that encode the homologs of the mouse tum- antigen P198.
(4) apparently not to be due to any mutation such as typ, tup, tmp, per or tum.
(5) The diversity of these antigens appears to be very large, like that of the tum- antigens.
(6) Immunization of rats with one C variant (C8) tum- cells did not protect them against either metastases or local growth of the implanted tumours.
(7) This antigenic pattern is similar to that found on teratocarcinoma tum- variants.
(8) Each of these "tum-" variants is rejected in syngeneic mice and stimulates the production of immune memory cells (self-protection).
(9) Mutagen treatment of P815 tumour cells produces tum- variants that are rejected by syngeneic mice because they express new transplantation antigens.
(10) The cells carrying the mutant alleles have impaired tumorigenicity compared with their progenitors due to in vivo induction of a cytotoxic T-cell response specific for tum- antigens.
(11) The drug susceptibility pattern of the strains revealed that there was no significant association of resistance between Tum and streptomycin or rifampicin or ethambutol or ethionamide or isoniazid.
(12) The sequence of this gene and that of two other tum- genes are totally unrelated with each other and with any sequence presently recorded in data banks.
(13) Our results suggest that the procedure of using a mutagen in order to generate tum- variants carrying new transplantation antigens may be generally applicable to cancer cells.
(14) Rumbling tums can be quietened at plenty of places to eat round the estate, until 5.30pm.
(15) Although tum+ clones grew in normal mice, immune mice were able to prevent the growth of tum+ clones with high levels of H-2 antigens.
(16) We have analyzed the effects of high doses of cyclophosphamide (Cy) on primary and secondary antitumor immune response against immunogenic (tum-) variants of Lewis lung carcinoma (3LL) treated in vitro with UV light.
(17) The tum- allele differs from its normal counterpart by a point mutation.
(18) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) of Tumble Blook (TUM) and Japan Medical Science (JMS) stocks were compared with regard to susceptibility to Leptospira interrogans serovar copenhageni.
(19) The tum- clones are therefore unable to generate tumors in syngeneic mice because they elicit an immune rejection response.
(20) No H-2 antigens were found on the cell surface of the parental BL6 clones, whereas all tum- clones from the BL6T2 line expressed high levels of H-2 antigens.