Hum vs Vibrate - What's the difference?
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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.
To move with small movements rapidly to and fro.
To resonate.
To brandish; to swing to and fro.
To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
* Holder
* Tennyson
The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
Hum is a related term of vibrate.
As nouns the difference between hum and vibrate
is that hum is twilight, dusk while vibrate is the setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.As a verb vibrate is
to move with small movements rapidly to and fro.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)
vibrate
English
Verb
- Her mind vibrates with excitement.
- to vibrate a sword or a staff
- a pendulum vibrating seconds
- Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may impress a swift, tremulous motion.
- Star to star vibrates light.
Noun
(-)- Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.