call vs hum

call

verb
  • To utter in a loud or distinct voice. 

  • To require, demand. 

  • To scold. 

  • To rouse from sleep; to awaken. 

  • To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. 

  • Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. 

  • (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). 

  • To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. 

  • To request, summon, or beckon. 

  • To cause to be verbally subjected to. 

  • To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. 

  • To come to pass; to afflict. 

  • To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.) 

  • To predict. 

  • To contact by telephone. 

  • To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). 

  • To name or refer to. 

  • To cry or shout. 

  • To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. 

  • (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. 

  • To stop at a station or port. 

  • To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as. 

  • To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. 

  • To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death. 

  • To declare in advance. 

  • To request that one's band play (a particular tune). 

  • To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. 

  • To tell in advance which shot one is attempting. 

  • To demand repayment of a loan. 

  • To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. 

  • To make a decision as a referee or umpire. 

noun
  • A short visit, usually for social purposes. 

  • A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. 

  • A cry or shout. 

  • A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. 

  • A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year. 

  • The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. 

  • The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. 

  • An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. 

  • An instance of calling someone on the telephone. 

  • Need; necessity. 

  • The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) 

  • A decision or judgement. 

  • A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. 

  • A telephone conversation; a phone call. 

  • The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. 

  • A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. 

  • A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. 

  • A beckoning or summoning. 

  • A visit by a ship or boat to a port. 

  • A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. 

  • A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call. 

  • The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. 

  • The act of calling to the other batsman. 

hum

verb
  • To express by humming. 

  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • 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 

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

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

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. 

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