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Sound of rapid vibration
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buzz
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Buzz is a free, monthly culture and what's on magazine for the South Wales region, established in 1991. It has a small staff, and relies on advertising revenues for funding. The magazine focuses on art, films, music, entertainment and dining in the South ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941 (see buzz (n.)). Related: Buzzed ; buzzing . Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone," from the use of buzzers to signal a call or message ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buzz \Buzz\, v. t. To sound forth by buzzing. --Shak. To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. --Shak. To talk to ...
Usage examples of buzz.
In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.
Before the apathetic, confused militiamen could step up to the boy, the whole deck became a buzzing hive.
He was nearing the apiary, wading through tall grass and wildflowers, aware of their scent and of the faint buzz in the air.
About to reload, Clyde heard indignant buzzes from the directors near him and realized that the heroic bust represented old Henry Argyle, the presiding deity in these precincts.
That buzz that can only really be attained by being up on stage bawling into a microphone and working up a good old sweat.
I tried to assign Buzz a motive as I drove down the road to his house, but I was as bereft of inspiration as I was of cool air from the pisspoor air conditioner.
After the buzz started, Bex opened the lock and dragged the old man out.
Hank Bindle had offered up in his entire adult life-that Ian suddenly buzzed in.
An older black man limped in with a clean-shaven youth in a military buzz cut.
Rather than being filled with worries about her surroundings, her mind buzzed with thoughts of the often puzzling, sometimes frustrating, yet always fascinating Blu Cahill.
McWatt, and he was not even safe with McWatt, who loved flying too much and went buzzing boldly inches off the ground with Yossarian in the nose on the way back from the training flight to break in the new bombardier in the whole replacement crew Colonel Cathcart had obtained after Orr was lost.
Quickly Newt buzzed away, and Yaz popped out of the hatch to follow him.
Newt buzzed into the air, his gossamer wings invisible with the speed of their flapping.
Newt, appearing and disappearing rapidly in his agitation, buzzed around the fissure.
Newt buzzed into the air and sank his teeth into the tail-feathers of one of the creatures, but the monster twisted and raked at him with its claws.