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Definition of bombinate in English: bombinateverbˈbɒmbɪneɪtˈbämbəˌnāt [no object]literary Buzz; hum. 〈诗/文〉发嗡嗡声 her head had become a bombinating vacuum Example sentencesExamples - It would help us to gauge the probability of finding life elsewhere instead of bombinating in a vacuum of data, caught between inevitability and uniqueness.
- ‘Many professional historians, bombinating in their airless circles, tend to ignore or dismiss Churchill the historian’.
- Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull.
- He has bombinated about his career in the Big Leagues twice, in The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two.
- Our dog has become good with horses; she tucks herself out of the way and lies down and doesn't bombinate around getting underfoot.
Synonyms hum, drone, bumble, whir, fizz, fuzz, hiss, sing, murmur, whisper
Derivativesnoun literary The bombination of music travels right through the floors. Example sentencesExamples - The bombination of a thousand mumbled prayers met them before they actually came upon the dense horde jammed into and spilling out of the grotto mouth.
- The most sonorous fliers of this order are the larger humble-bees, whose bombination, boom'ing, or bombing, may be heard from a considerable distance.
- Every now and then the air conditioner for next door would stop, then it would continue its endless bombination until the early hours of the morning.
- Flaubert's most damning irony consists in his maintaining that an entire nation of shopkeepers can be reduced to the complacent murmur and bombination of a single voice.
OriginLate 19th century: from medieval Latin bombinare, bombinat- 'buzz', from Latin bombus 'humming' (see bomb). Definition of bombinate in US English: bombinateverbˈbämbəˌnāt [no object]literary Buzz; hum. 〈诗/文〉发嗡嗡声 her head had become a bombinating vacuum Example sentencesExamples - ‘Many professional historians, bombinating in their airless circles, tend to ignore or dismiss Churchill the historian’.
- Our dog has become good with horses; she tucks herself out of the way and lies down and doesn't bombinate around getting underfoot.
- It would help us to gauge the probability of finding life elsewhere instead of bombinating in a vacuum of data, caught between inevitability and uniqueness.
- Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull.
- He has bombinated about his career in the Big Leagues twice, in The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two.
Synonyms hum, drone, bumble, whir, fizz, fuzz, hiss, sing, murmur, whisper
OriginLate 19th century: from medieval Latin bombinare, bombinat- ‘buzz’, from Latin bombus ‘humming’ (see bomb). |