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US
/ˈdɹoʊn/
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[ 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
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make a monotonous low dull sound
The harmonium was droning on - talk in a monotonous voice
How To Use drone In A Sentence
- 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.
- - Pakistani relationship over the drones has only gotten stronger, even if the price of quiet cooperation is public denouncement from the Pakistani government. Whinging And Whining | ATTACKERMAN
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- He has added feedback, distorted organs and drones to his melodious soundscape, and his folk songs have become all the more beautiful yet disturbing in their increasingly gothic strangeness.
- 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.
- 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
