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Word: Drone
Speech Type: Verb
Old English drān, drǣn ‘male bee’, from a West Germanic verb meaning ‘resound, boom’; related to Dutch dreunen ‘to drone’, German dröhnen ‘to roar’, and Swedish dröna ‘to drowse’
drəʊn
make a continuous low humming sound
Short Definition:make humming sound
Examples:- in the far distance a machine droned
Word: Drone
Speech Type: Noun
drəʊn
a continuous low humming sound
Short Definition:low humming sound
Examples:- he nodded off to the drone of the car engine
a continuous musical note of low pitch
Short Definition:continuous low note
Examples:- the drone rose by a third to A
a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
Short Definition:male bee
a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or small flying device
Short Definition:remote-controlled aircraft or missile
Examples:- pilots use remote controls to guide a stealth reconnaissance drone
- a photographer used a drone to take some unconventional photos of the countryside
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