BUZZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buzzing mean? 

• BUZZING (adjective)
  The adjective BUZZING has 1 sense:

1. noisy like the sound of a bee

  Familiarity information: BUZZING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUZZING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Noisy like the sound of a bee

Synonyms:

abuzz; buzzing

Context example:

the room was abuzz over the latest scandal

Similar:

noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)

 Context examples 

I endeavoured to tie my handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the rose-bushes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s something throbbing in my head now, like a docker’s hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in my ears.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A half-thought has been buzzing often in my brain, but I fear to let him loose his wings.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There, buzzing in the air at the tip of his nose, was a lone mosquito.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is not to be thought that a troop of bowmen, with the wine buzzing in their ears, will be as soft-spoken as so many young clerks in an orchard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Issue associated with any unintended sound which emanates from a device (for example, squeaking from two parts rubbing together or buzzing sounds from electrical components).

(Audible Device Noise, NCI Thesaurus)

An electronic signaling device designed to make a buzzing sound by vibration of an armature.

(Buzzer Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual gets or has gotten a ringing or buzzing in their ears.

(Get Ringing or Buzzing in Ears, NCI Thesaurus)

As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)