drum machine

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noun

a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.

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The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.
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They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
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The resulting Wool Runners were comfortable, eco-friendly, machine-washable, and super cute—and sold out almost immediately.
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Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.
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A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
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"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.
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British Dictionary definitions for drum machine

drum machine

noun

a synthesizer specially programmed to reproduce the sound of drums and other percussion instruments in variable rhythms and combinations selected by the musician; the resulting beat is produced continually until stopped or changed

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