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drone | American Dictionary

drone
noun[ U ]
us/droʊn/
a low, continuous noise:
I could hear the drone of an airplane.
drone
verb[ I ]
us/droʊn/
to make a low, continuous noise:
The radio droned in the background while we talked.
To drone on is to talk in a low voice that does not change and is considered boring.

Examples of drone

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The material is relatively simple: drones, amplified percussion, distortion effects, and, in the final track, a range of objects.
Otherwise, the scene is characterised by the eerie sound of the planes, the drone of their engines and crackle of machine gunfire.
In more traditional musical terms this component could be thought of as a drone or pedal point.
In about one-fourth of the chants, vocal drones are added to the melody, and in a few cases instrumental drones are heard.
Wives of the middle and upper classes increasingly became idle drones.
Archetypical drones, overlaid with playful samples of string improvisation and instrumental effects develop the keynotes, roads and horizons for a series of soundscape situations.
Pitches a third, fifth or sixth above the drone acquire the status of stable notes; those a second, fourth or seventh above seem unstable.
The chants are rendered with organum and drones.
Some use is made of octaves and drones to vary the texture.
Chord-like drones sing when the wind direction and velocity are suitable.
It was a place where periodic waveforms were propelled into the structure, propagating throughout as a type of drone sound traversing the site.
In example 11, small sound-objects are combined with a resonant drone suggesting some kind of enclosure.
The characteristic indie guitar sound was a 'wall of noise' - jangling or droning guitars, buried vocals and reverberation.
The interpretations are singular, with drones when the beginning of the chant returns, but this group has earned respect for their efforts.
The teacher and trainee teacher added drones and melodic ostinati from a keyboard and a computer.
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