humming
verbeadjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues
- //ˈhʌmɪŋ//
Making a hum sound.
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de humpresent participle and gerund of hum
Étymologie
From hum + -ing.
adjectif
- 1
Making a hum sound.
- 2
archaïqueOf ale or beer: very strong.
But at night crowds of visitors called at his cot, / For he told a right marvellous tale; / Yet a stronger attraction by chance he had got, / A barrel of old humming ale.
- 3
argotVery bad-smelling.
nom
- 1
The sound of something that hums; a hum.
There are some contemporary additions to these scattered fragments from Shakespeare. Mostly they are songs; sometimes they are various screechings and hummings[…]
Étymologie
From Middle English hummynge, equivalent to hum + -ing.
Formes
- pluriel
- hummings
- comparatif
- more humming
- superlatif
- most humming