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droning

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drone 1  (drn)
n.
1. A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
2. An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
3. A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: "undervalued drones who labored in obscurity" Caroline Bates.
4. A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control.
[Middle English, from Old English drn.]
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Noun1.droning - an unchanging intonation
monotone, drone
intonation, pitch contour, modulation - rise and fall of the voice pitch
droning
adjective monotonous, boring, tedious, drawling, soporific
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Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.
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Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise.
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The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals.
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