drone

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[ US /ˈdɹoʊn/ ]
[ 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

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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

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