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单词 to make things hum
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to make things (or something specified) hum
3. To give forth an indistinct sound by the blending of many voices, etc.; hence (colloquial) to be in a condition of busy activity, to be all astir. to make things (or something specified) hum: to bring to such a condition, to liven things up.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > sound faintly or quietly [verb (intransitive)] > make murmuring sounds
murmurc1395
croona1500
mustle1570
mute1570
simmera1637
hummer1691
remurmur1697
hum1730
mummer1763
whimper?1795
mutter1797
brum1844
rumour1894
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up
stirc1000
aweccheOE
stirc1175
arear?c1225
awakec1315
amovec1330
araisec1374
wake1398
wakenc1400
to stir upa1500
incend?1504
to firk upc1540
bestir1549
store1552
bustlea1555
tickle1567
solicitate1568
to stir one's taila1572
exsuscitate1574
rouse1574
suscitate1598
accite1600
actuate1603
arousea1616
poach1632
roust1658
to shake up1850
to galvanize to or into life1853
to make things (or something specified) hum1884
to jack up1914
rev1945
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active
wakec897
stir?c1225
whippet1540
to let the grass grow under one's feet (also heels)a1556
jetty1570
hum1884
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > be full of brisk activity
bustle1774
bristle1844
hum1889
jumpc1938
1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 218 The city swarms intense. The publick haunt..warm with mixt discourse, Hums indistinct.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xviii. 88 The haven hums with many a cheering sound.
1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 55 I scarce can hear the people hum About the column's base.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxii. 194 He lit into that horse with his whip and made him fairly hum.
1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus iii. 34 The owner of the farm..came home, and, in American parlance, ‘fairly made things hum’.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 1/3 [In] the expressive nomenclature of the Far West, Hong-kong ‘just hums’ all the time.
1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 29 The whole country was humming with dacoits.
1898 Daily News 11 Jan. 5/1 The report that he had plenty of money, and would make things hum at the club.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl xviii. 205 We took you on this paper to help us make things hum! I understand you made things hum over in England.
1906 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Jan. 44 The colleges are making athletic reform hum, as if to make up for lost time.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby x. 265 But still things are, as the American would express it, ‘beginning to hum’ in the irrigation line.
1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. xxx I want money to spend in Butte,..and make things hum.
1922 H. Walpole Cathedral i. vii. 135 I hardly need to tell you that he's not quite the man to make things hum.
1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 107 By gum! Wouldn't it just make things hum?
1973 Times 16 Jan. 17/7 Our view is that if you get the logistics right and do get concentration of the best modern equipment you can really get something humming in the 1974 period.
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