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droning

ˈdroʊnɪŋ
WordNet
Interesting fact
The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee
  1. (n) droning
    an unchanging intonation
Quotations
Charles Dickens
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
Usage in the news

A Pakistani protester holds a burning US flag as others shout slogans during a protest in Multan on October 31, 2011 against US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region. globalpost.com

35 pm EST Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the US military's eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection. cbsnews.com

The Predator drones flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan are variants of this MQ-9 Reaper. scpr.org

US Drone Program May Challenge International Law . vasfm.org

An Iranian attack aircraft fired at least twice at an unarmed US drone conducting routine surveillance in international airspace over the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon said Thursday. dailynews.com

The aircraft missed and the drone returned to base unharmed. dailynews.com

Iranian warplanes fired shots at a US drone last week but only after the unmanned aircraft had entered Iranian airspace, Iran's defense minister said Friday. nwanews.com

Drones Kill Another ' Irreplaceable ' al-Qaida Leader. ired.com

Code Pink activists warned of possible terrorist strike against anti-drone rally in Pakistan. myrtlebeachonline.com

Americans in Pakistan to protest US drone strikes. tri-cityherald.com

ISLAMABAD — A group of American activists is in Pakistan, planning to join a march into the country's tribal belt to protest US drone strikes. tri-cityherald.com

I'm talking, of course, about the drone aircraft that have, in recent years, become a signature form of American war-making. motherjones.com

Iran Shows Video It Says Is of US Drone. nytimes.com

New, stealthy Navy drone makes its maiden flight . msnbc.msn.com

The X-47B drone takes off for a test last week from Edwards Air Force Base in California. msnbc.msn.com

Usage in scientific papers

Also, in this regime one obtains the following picture for asymptotics of the probabilities at t → +∞: all the ‘activated’ (i.e., with ρn 6= 0) probabilities with the maximal value of the decay parameters rise droningly, whereas all the remaining probabilities fall to the zero ones.
Arrow of time in generalized quantum theory and its classical limit dynamics

Usage in literature

The constant drone of that old woman was putting me to sleep. "The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography" by Unknown

Presently from the darkness there came the distant drone of powerful engines. "The Man Upstairs" by P. G. Wodehouse

Then, faint at first, but growing stronger every instant, there came from some point in the road far behind him a steady droning sound. "The White Feather" by P. G. Wodehouse

Drones are not welcomed by us. "Mike" by P. G. Wodehouse

The droning gurgle that he made kept Tinto awake. "The Fighting Chance" by Robert W. Chambers

But then Parson Dale, though High Church to the marrow, is neither hypocrite nor drone. "My Novel, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We had hardly finished laying our eggs when a droning noise was heard. "Diary of a U-Boat Commander" by Anonymous

The silence now became complete, save for the stamping of the impatient horses and the drone of insects in the woods and grass. "The Rock of Chickamauga" by Joseph A. Altsheler

The big car hummed like a droning bee and seemed to cover the miles as if by magic. "The Desert of Wheat" by Zane Grey

I've an important conference on at the Drones tonight. "Right Ho, Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse

Usage in poetry
The organ's drone, the voices faint
    That sing the quaint long-metre hymn—
I somehow feel as if shut out
From some mysterious temple, dim
While in the mill, with ceaseless whirr and drone,
With moss and lichens to the roof o'ergrown
An undertone to every other sound,
The blind old horse goes round
What mean yon cries where the flat world dies
In hazy rotundity —
Tumult a-swoon, silence a-croon,
Lapped in profundity — bane or boon
Or only the drone of a fever rune?
I rested, with one hesitant hand
Upon the gate. The lonesome day,
Droning with insects, made the land
One dry stagnation; soaked with hay
And scents of weeds, the hot wind fanned.
By flight how shall one triumph or make end?
Shall warm love spurned and perjured wine amend
Death by the drone of sluggish years that rust?
Shall thus your praise of gratitude ascend?
Then through great temples swelled the dismal moaning
Of dirge-like music and sepulchral prayer;
Pale wizard priests, o'er occult symbols droning,
Swung their white censers in the burdened air