hum vs whoosh

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. 

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

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

whoosh

noun
  • A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. 

  • A homicide by shooting. 

  • A gun. 

intj
  • Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close. 

  • Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head). 

verb
  • To pass by quickly and more or less close or away. 

  • To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound. 

  • To cause to pass quickly. 

  • To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point. 

  • To kill by gun, to shoot. 

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