What part of speech is hums?

Hums can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. hums is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of hum (infinitive).
  • 2. hums is a noun, plural of hum.

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Verb

Noun

What does hums mean?

Definitions

Verb
hum - be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"
hum - sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody"
hum - make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"
hum - sound with a monotonous hum

Noun
hum - a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"
hum - the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation"
hum - an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan
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Examples of hums

#   Sentence  
1. verb Mary often hums a tune as she works in the kitchen.
2. verb My head hums.
3. verb He always hums while working.
4. verb Do you know anyone who hums while they work?
5. verb Tom always hums while working.
6. verb Mary often hums songs under her breath while she works in the kitchen.
7. verb It hums in my ears from the yell of young children.
8. verb A melody is not merely something you can hum.
9. verb You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups.
10. verb I often hum while I work.
11. verb In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching.
12. verb Giraffes hum at low frequencies.
13. verb Scientists have no idea why giraffes hum.
14. verb They hum poems in Kabyle.
15. verb A melody is not merely something you can hum.
16. noun The hum of distant traffic.
17. noun There is a constant hum of military preparation.
18. noun I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.
19. noun What's causing that hum?
20. noun The apple-pickers on the ladders raised a hum and murmur of applause, and then, in keeping with the sound, bestirred themselves to work again like bees.
21. noun Their journey was silent but for the hum of the engine, the hiss of the rain and the rhythmic squeaking of the windshield wipers.
22. noun I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.
23. noun What's causing that hum?
24. noun The apple-pickers on the ladders raised a hum and murmur of applause, and then, in keeping with the sound, bestirred themselves to work again like bees.
25. noun Their journey was silent but for the hum of the engine, the hiss of the rain and the rhythmic squeaking of the windshield wipers.
Sentence  
verb
Mary often hums a tune as she works in the kitchen.
My head hums.
He always hums while working.
Do you know anyone who hums while they work?
Tom always hums while working.
Mary often hums songs under her breath while she works in the kitchen.
It hums in my ears from the yell of young children.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups.
I often hum while I work.
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching.
Giraffes hum at low frequencies.
Scientists have no idea why giraffes hum.
They hum poems in Kabyle.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
noun
The hum of distant traffic.
There is a constant hum of military preparation.
I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.
What's causing that hum?
The apple-pickers on the ladders raised a hum and murmur of applause, and then, in keeping with the sound, bestirred themselves to work again like bees.
Their journey was silent but for the hum of the engine, the hiss of the rain and the rhythmic squeaking of the windshield wipers.
I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.
What's causing that hum?
The apple-pickers on the ladders raised a hum and murmur of applause, and then, in keeping with the sound, bestirred themselves to work again like bees.
Their journey was silent but for the hum of the engine, the hiss of the rain and the rhythmic squeaking of the windshield wipers.
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