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droning
drone 1 D0395600 (drōn)n.1. A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.2. An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.3. A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: "undervalued drones who labored in obscurity" (Caroline Bates).4. A remotely controlled or autonomous aircraft with no pilot on board. Also called unmanned aircraft system.
[Middle English, from Old English drān. Sense 4, originally 1930s US naval jargon introduced by Commander (later Rear Admiral) Delmer Fahrney (1898-1984), in reference to the fact that such pilotless aircraft, at first used for target practice, were controlled by an operator on the ground or in a mother ship or aircraft, likened to a queen bee.]
drone 2 D0395600 (drōn)v. droned, dron·ing, drones v.intr.1. To make a continuous low dull humming sound: "Somewhere an electric fan droned without end" (William Styron).2. To speak in a monotonous tone: The lecturer droned on for hours.3. To pass or act in a monotonous way.v.tr. To utter in a monotonous low tone: "The mosquitoes droned their angry chant" (W. Somerset Maugham).n.1. A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.2. Music a. Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.b. A long sustained tone.c. Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.
[From drone (from the bee's humming sound).]Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | droning - an unchanging intonationmonotone, droneintonation, pitch contour, modulation - rise and fall of the voice pitch |
droningadjective1. humming, buzzing, vibrating, purring, whirring, thrumming the droning of a plane overhead2. monotonous, boring, tedious, drawling, soporific the minister's relentlessly droning voiceEncyclopediaSeedronedroning
Synonyms for droningadj hummingSynonyms- humming
- buzzing
- vibrating
- purring
- whirring
- thrumming
adj monotonousSynonyms- monotonous
- boring
- tedious
- drawling
- soporific
Synonyms for droningnoun an unchanging intonationSynonymsRelated Words- intonation
- pitch contour
- modulation
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