all right vs hum

all right

intj
  • Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello. 

  • Used to express exasperation or frustration, often with already. 

  • Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement. 

  • Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent. 

  • Used to fill space or pauses. 

  • Used as a general lead-in or beginning. 

adv
  • Most certainly; for sure. 

  • Fairly well. 

adj
  • Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition. 

  • In good health, unharmed. 

hum

intj
  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

How often have the words all right and hum occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )