Synonym: buzz, hum, idler, loafer, unemployed. Similar words: dodecahedron, philodendron, drown, drop, drops, droll, droop, adroit. Meaning: [drəʊn] n. 1. stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen 2. an unchanging intonation 3. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind 4. an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control 5. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone. v. 1. make a monotonous low dull sound 2. talk in a monotonous voice.
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31 Again, a palm across the mouthpiece and the drone of conversation in the background.
32 The sudden breeze introduced through the open door disturbed the orbit of the drone and sent the Doctor drifting slowly backwards.
33 Remarkable how long a nasal drone and a cheap synth can sustain a man.
34 Outside, over the low monotonous drone of the air conditioner, she could hear the mating call of a cricket.
35 Again the drone of the plane seemed to echo a deeper unease, which again came to the surface of her mind.
36 Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home.
37 The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.
38 But, to be fair to myself, she could, at times,[http://sentencedict.com/drone.html] become a bona fide drone.
39 Gradually, the drone of the Boeing's engines faded into the background of her thought.
40 A drone is a pilotless aircraft.
41 Soviet Apocalypse Tank has a Repair Drone.
42 The drone of his misleading whistle brings Walter back.
43 The Drone speed augmentor rig's bonus is properly applied.
44 Occasionally could be heard the drone of unmolested'plane.
45 Results(1) The Blattella germanica activity behaviors at night has a character of activity peak and a drone spatial distributing.
46 The trees to either side of the drone blasted into smoke and splinters.
47 A surveillance drone, a Predator, "was providing overwatch and nothing was seen moving in the area after the strike".
48 The US has carried out at least 25 drone strikes so farthis month in Pakistan's tribal areas - the highest monthly total for the pastsix years, US media reported.
49 Music consisting of a single unaccompanied melodic line. The concept often also includes melody that is accompanied by a drone of by drumming.
50 The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control.
51 Today's killer drone is a slow - flying, easy - to - spot turboprop plane that drops relatively - crude munitions on its targets.
52 Delilah listened to the conversation drone on without paying any particular attention.
53 Little Stevie and the "unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers" are a powerful force, but should McDonald's be liable for their pestering ways?
54 Meanwhile, al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not been targeted by a drone since 2006.
55 A radio-controlled plane becomes an autonomous drone when it is given an autopilot, which Mr. Anderson calls "giving the plane a brain."
56 The work is concluded by an extended coda in which chromatic contrapuntal interplay among the voices are supported by a steady funeral-march drone.
57 The University of Konkuk, South Korea, created an autonomous flying drone out of remarkably few parts.
58 In mating season, Chinese bee drone and Italian bee drone have the same mating tour time.
59 More successful than his laser bomb idea, theAirborne Laser Laboratory shot down a drone on May 2, 1981, at WhiteSands Missile Range.
60 Mr. Redmer said he was most interested lately in the Parrot AR.Drone, a flying robot priced at $300. "It flies.
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