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US
/ˈdɹoʊn/
]
[ UK /dɹˈəʊn/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈəʊn/ ]
NOUN
- stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- an unchanging intonation
VERB
-
make a monotonous low dull sound
The harmonium was droning on - talk in a monotonous voice
How To Use drone In A Sentence
- Daniel just drones on about American policy.
- 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.
- Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
- The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
- They instead want to have -- they want to fight, you know, with drones from afar and take out top al Qaeda leadership, what is -- a so-called counterterrorist strategy. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009
- From inside the bar came the tinny drone of technopop. Surrender, Dorothy
- They let me take a fatt for the padrone-God. rest 0a aoul-and when I'm out of the slammer, I'm deported. Greenmantle
- Last year he dispatched troops into Swat and South Waziristan to oust the Taliban from their mountain lair; more recently, he helped the US increase drone strikes. Mumbai spy says he worked for terrorists ? then briefed Pakistan
- An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
- Among the best-known of syrphid flies are the drone-flies The Life-Story of Insects