Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
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
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.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of indignance.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used as a greeting
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
To a significant degree.
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
Completely, fully.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
A source of supply.
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
A well drink.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
To have something seep out of the surface.
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
Prudent; good; well-advised.
In good health.
Good, content.