DRONE
\dɹˈə͡ʊn], \dɹˈəʊn], \d_ɹ_ˈəʊ_n]\
Definitions of DRONE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
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an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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an unchanging intonation
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talk in a monotonous voice
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make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"
By Princeton University
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a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
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an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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an unchanging intonation
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talk in a monotonous voice
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
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One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
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That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
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A humming or deep murmuring sound.
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A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
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To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
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To love in idleness; to do nothing.
By Oddity Software
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The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
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One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
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That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
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A humming or deep murmuring sound.
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A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
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To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
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To love in idleness; to do nothing.
By Noah Webster.
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To utter a monotonous tone or sound; live in idleness.
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To read or speak in a monotonous tone.
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A dull monotonous tone: one of the pipes of a bagpipe; the male of the honeybee, which produces no honey; a lazy fellow.
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Dronish.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The male of the honeybee: one who lives on the labor of others, like the drone-bee: a lazy, idle fellow.
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The largest tube of the bagpipe.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To hum.
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One of the three long tubes of the bag pipe, each of which produces a fixed note operating as a sustained bass, or its sound; a bass of one note running through a piece.
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To idle.
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A male bee, that gathers no honey; an idler.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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