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{{Short description|Wordless tone with closed mouth}} {{Other uses}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Listen | filename = Deep humming noise.wav | title = A man producing a long monotone hum | alt = | description = | filename2 = Woman humming a nondescript tune.wav | title2 = A woman humming a tune | alt2 = | description2 = }} A '''hum''' ([[Help:IPA/English|/hΚm/]] {{Audio|En-us-hum.ogg|}}) Latin: murmur, The sound of giraffes humming ({{Audio|Giraffehum3.oga|}}) is a [[sound]] made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the [[nose]]. To '''hum''' is to produce such a sound, often with a [[melody]]. It is also associated with [[Speech disfluency#Thoughtful absorption|thoughtful absorption]], [[Speech disfluency#"Hmm"|'hmm']]. A hum has a particular [[timbre]] (or sound quality), usually a [[Monophony|monotone]] or with slightly varying [[frequency|tones]]. There are other similar sounds not produced by human singing that are also called hums, as the sound produced by [[machinery]] in operation, such as a [[Microwave oven|microwave]], or by an [[insect]] in flight. The [[hummingbird]] was named for the sound that bird makes in flight which sounds like a hum.
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