drone
berdengung
definition
verb
in the far distance a machine droned
make a continuous low humming sound.
noun
he nodded off to the drone of the car engine
a low continuous humming sound.
According to scientific descriptions, a honeybee colony consists of one queen, several thousand worker bees, and at certain times of the year, a few to several thousand drones , or male bees.
a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
example
On a personal note, several of my most powerful dreams have involved a rising 'drone' or chanting sound.
In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their 'drone' to the low buzz of conversation.
only twenty minutes of the hour-long 'drone' had passed
The first thing I heard when I put in this CD and pressed ‘Play’ was a weird 'drone' that sounded more like an air raid than anything else my fatigued brain could think of.
I punched in Anna's phone number, and the 'drone' of the ringing was putting me to sleep, it was 10: 30 pm already.
Finally, her right hand slowed and then stopped, although her left hand continued the 'drone' for a few notes before it, too fell still.
It should have been a good line, but he sounded like a petulant 'drone' with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous 'drone' , and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
The marching of our feet rings out in unison, an endless 'drone' accompanied by the clattering hooves of the knights' horses.
With a nuclear ballistic missile against a 'drone' , a near miss was counted as a hit.
For those who might not know, drones cannot sting, but, of course most people are not aware of this fact; and anyway how could you tell whether a bee was a 'drone' or not in a darkened cinema?
Very few listened to the monotonous 'drone' of the teacher as he explained proofs and parabolas.
The silence outside. Living so close to Kennedy Airport, the sound of planes getting ready to land is a constant 'drone' throughout the day.
Tobias couldn't hear himself scream over the 'drone' of planes and noise of the explosions rattling the earth all around him.
How else can they 'drone' on about the same boring subject continuously?
Thus the music feels bounded by the drone, that the 'drone' is the undulating surface of a musical object.
Overhead, a 'drone' whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
In that 'drone' Harley heard an echo of the blues, but he also heard something deeper.
This great change manifested itself in a sudden tiredness and slight nausea as the speaker's monotonous 'drone' confirmed exactly the opposite.
You also have the 'drone' bee that doesn't do anything except fertilise the young queens.
She looked at it now, while she tuned out the monotonous 'drone' of her teacher's ramblings.
Across the Channel the night thundered with the 'drone' of 1,700 planes.
In fact, most serious energy enthusiasts are keen to distance themselves from those wacky New Age types who 'drone' on about our energy fields being affected by karmic laws.
The 'drone' begins to sound similar to a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the surrounding life.
the 'drone' rose by a third to A
Masses of mankind arose from inexpensive seating, emitting a 'drone' of noise, noises, actually, as small groups of people conversed about a number of subjects.
Zac talked in a monotonous 'drone' about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
It doesn't help that the musical backing is a five-minute 'drone' of grating computerized noise.
So when I reach my classroom, I listen to the monotonous 'drone' of the teacher.
The foreman on that building site was approached last week about it and I will continue to 'drone' on about it until is has been sorted.
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