hum vs resound

hum

noun
  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

  • 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. 

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 

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

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

resound

noun
  • An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding. 

  • The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance. 

verb
  • Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. 

  • Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring. 

  • Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned. 

  • Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo. 

  • Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously. 

  • Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time. 

  • To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. 

  • To echo or repeat (a sound). 

  • To sound again. 

  • To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing. 

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