Hum vs O - What's the difference?
hum | o |
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
* Shakespeare
Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
(UK, slang) unpleasant odour.
(dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
To express by humming.
To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
To produce low sounds which blend continuously
(British) To reek, smell bad.
(British) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
(transitive, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
The fifteenth letter of the .
close-mid back rounded vowel
Image:Latin O.png, Capital and lowercase versions of O , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter O.png, Uppercase and lowercase O in Fraktur
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In lang=en terms the difference between hum and o
is that hum is an imposition or hoax; humbug while o is orgasm. Often used in the phrase the big O.As nouns the difference between hum and o
is that hum is a hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed while o is a zero used in reading out numbers.As interjections the difference between hum and o
is that hum is hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation while o is the English vocative particle, used before a pronoun or the name of a person or persons to mark direct address.As a verb hum
is to make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.As a particle O is
The English vocative particle, used for direct address.As an abbreviation O is
the number of overs bowled.hum
English
(wikipedia hum)Noun
(en noun)- They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen, and found the dishwasher on.
- the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Verb
(humm)- We are humming happily along with the music.
- to hum a tune
- ''The hazers ominously hummed "We shall overcome" while they paddled the unruly pledges
- A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
- 'The streets were humming with activity.''
- This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate?
Derived terms
* hummer * hummingbird * humming-topSynonyms
* bumble * bustle * hustle * buzz * croon * whirAnagrams
*Interjection
(en interjection)- (Alexander Pope)