Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - drone
Drone
drone
n. & v. --n. 1 a non-working male of the honey-bee, whose sole function is to mate with fertile females. 2 an idler. 3 a deep humming sound. 4 a monotonous speech or speaker. 5 a a pipe, esp. of a bagpipe, sounding a continuous note of fixed low pitch. b the note emitted by this. 6 a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or missile. --v. 1 intr. make a deep humming sound. 2 intr. & tr. speak or utter monotonously. 3 a intr. be idle. b tr. (often foll. by away) idle away (one's time etc.). Etymology: OE dran, dr{aelig}n prob. f. WG
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drān; akin to Old High German treno ~, Greek thrēnos dirge Date: before 12th century the male of a bee (as the honeybee) that has no sting and gathers no honey, one that lives on the labors of others ; parasite, an unmanned aircraft or ship guided by remote control, 4. drudge 1, drudge 2, II. verb (~d; droning) Date: circa 1520 intransitive verb 1. to make a sustained deep murmuring, humming, or buzzing sound , to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone , to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner , transitive verb to utter or pronounce with a ~, to pass or spend in dull or monotonous activity or in idleness, ~r noun droningly adverb III. noun Date: circa 1520 a deep sustained or monotonous sound ; hum, an instrument or part of an instrument (as one of the fixed-pitch pipes of a bagpipe) that sounds a continuous unvarying tone, pedal point ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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