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单词 drone
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drone


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).]

drone

(drəʊn) n1. (Zoology) a male bee in a colony of social bees, whose sole function is to mate with the queen2. Brit a person who lives off the work of others3. (Aeronautics) a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft[Old English drān; related to Old High German treno drone, Gothic drunjus noise, Greek tenthrēnē wasp; see drone2] ˈdronish adj

drone

(drəʊn) vb1. (intr) to make a monotonous low dull sound; buzz or hum2. (when: intr, often foll by on) to utter (words) in a monotonous tone, esp to talk without stoppingn3. a monotonous low dull sound4. (Music, other) music a. a sustained bass note or chord of unvarying pitch accompanying a melodyb. (as modifier): a drone bass. 5. (Instruments) music one of the single-reed pipes in a set of bagpipes, used for accompanying the melody played on the chanter6. a person who speaks in a low monotonous tone[C16: related to drone1 and Middle Dutch drōnen, German dröhnen] ˈdroning adj ˈdroningly adv

drone1

(droʊn)

n. 1. the male of the honeybee and other bees that is stingless and makes no honey. 2. a craft operated by remote control, esp. a pilotless airplane guided by radio signals. 3. a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer. 4. a drudge. [before 1000; Middle English drone, drane, Old English dran, dron] dron′ish, adj.

drone2

(droʊn)

v. droned, dron•ing,
n. v.i. 1. to make a continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz. 2. to speak in a monotonous tone. 3. to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner (usu. fol. by on). v.t. 4. to say in a dull, monotonous tone. n. 5. a. a musical instrument or one of its parts producing a continuous low tone, esp. a bagpipe. b. pedal point. 6. a monotonous low tone; humming or buzzing sound. [1490–1500; see drone1 and compare Middle English droun to roar, Icelandic drynja to bellow, Gothic drunjus noise] dron′er, n. dron′ing•ly, adv.

drone

(drōn) A male bee, especially a honeybee whose only function is to fertilize the queen. Drones have no stingers, do no work, and do not produce honey.

drone

A land, sea, or air vehicle that is remotely or automatically controlled. See also remotely piloted vehicle; unmanned aerial vehicle.

drone


Past participle: droned
Gerund: droning
Imperative
drone
drone
Present
I drone
you drone
he/she/it drones
we drone
you drone
they drone
Preterite
I droned
you droned
he/she/it droned
we droned
you droned
they droned
Present Continuous
I am droning
you are droning
he/she/it is droning
we are droning
you are droning
they are droning
Present Perfect
I have droned
you have droned
he/she/it has droned
we have droned
you have droned
they have droned
Past Continuous
I was droning
you were droning
he/she/it was droning
we were droning
you were droning
they were droning
Past Perfect
I had droned
you had droned
he/she/it had droned
we had droned
you had droned
they had droned
Future
I will drone
you will drone
he/she/it will drone
we will drone
you will drone
they will drone
Future Perfect
I will have droned
you will have droned
he/she/it will have droned
we will have droned
you will have droned
they will have droned
Future Continuous
I will be droning
you will be droning
he/she/it will be droning
we will be droning
you will be droning
they will be droning
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been droning
you have been droning
he/she/it has been droning
we have been droning
you have been droning
they have been droning
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been droning
you will have been droning
he/she/it will have been droning
we will have been droning
you will have been droning
they will have been droning
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been droning
you had been droning
he/she/it had been droning
we had been droning
you had been droning
they had been droning
Conditional
I would drone
you would drone
he/she/it would drone
we would drone
you would drone
they would drone
Past Conditional
I would have droned
you would have droned
he/she/it would have droned
we would have droned
you would have droned
they would have droned
Thesaurus
Noun1.drone - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queendrone - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queenbee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
2.drone - an unchanging intonationdroning, monotoneintonation, pitch contour, modulation - rise and fall of the voice pitch
3.drone - someone who takes more time than necessarydrone - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behinddawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, pokedo-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"lingerer, loiterer - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a placeslowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, plodder - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"potterer, putterer - a person who putters aboutstraggler, strayer - someone who strays or falls behind
4.drone - an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote controlpilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraftheavier-than-air craft - a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it
5.drone - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tonebourdon, drone pipebagpipe - a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the dronepipe - a tubular wind instrument
Verb1.drone - make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
2.drone - talk in a monotonous voicedrone onmouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

drone

1noun parasite, skiver (Brit. slang), idler, lounger, piker (Austral. & N.Z. slang), leech, loafer, couch potato (slang), scrounger (informal), sponger (informal), sluggard, bludger (Austral. & N.Z. informal) A few are dim-witted drones, but most are talented.

drone

2verb1. hum, buzz, vibrate, purr, whirr, thrum An invisible plane drones through the night sky.noun1. hum, buzz, purr, vibration, whirr, whirring, thrum the constant drone of the motorwaydrone on speak monotonously, drawl, chant, spout, intone, talk interminably Her voice droned on.

drone 1

nounA self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity:bum, fainéant, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, sluggard, wastrel.Informal: do-little, do-nothing, lazybones, slug.Slang: slouch.

drone 2

verbTo make a continuous low-pitched droning sound:bumble, burr, buzz, hum, whir, whiz.nounA continuous low-pitched droning sound:bumble, burr, buzz, hum, whir, whiz.
Translations
发出嗡嗡声懒汉深沉的嗡嗡声用单调沉闷的声音说话雄蜂

drone

(drəun) noun1. the male of the bee. 雄蜂 雄蜂2. a person who is lazy and idle. 游手好閒者 懒汉3. a deep, humming sound. the distant drone of traffic. 低沉的嗡嗡聲 深沉的嗡嗡声 verb1. to make a low, humming sound. An aeroplane droned overhead. 發出低沉的嗡嗡聲 发出嗡嗡声2. to speak in a dull, boring voice. The lecturer droned on and on. 用單調沈悶的聲音說話 用单调沉闷的声音说话

drone


drone on

To talk at length in a monotone. If you keep droning on like this, you're going to put your audience to sleep. A: "The professor's already been droning on about polynomials for an hour." B: "Oh, so that's why I lost interest an hour ago!"See also: drone, on

drone out

To say something in a monotone. A noun or pronoun can be used between "drone" and "out." If you keep droning out information, you're going to put your audience to sleep.See also: drone, out

drone on (about someone or something)

to lecture or narrate in a low-pitched, dull, and boring manner. The dull old professor droned on about Byron—or was it Keats? It was Shelley and, yes, he did drone on.See also: drone, on

drone (something) out

to make a loud and low-pitched noise; to say something in a low-pitched and monotonous manner. The announcer droned the winning numbers out. She droned out the winning numbers.See also: drone, out

drone


drone

or

remotely piloted vehicle,

a pilotless craft guided by remote control. Aircraft, ships, and land vehicles can be designed or outfitted as drones; underwater vessels—both piloted and pilotless—are usually called submersiblessubmersible,
small, mobile undersea research vessel capable of functioning in the ocean depths. Development of a great variety of submersibles during the later 1950s and 1960s came about as a result of improved technology and in response to a demonstrated need for the capability
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, however, and the term drone is most typically applied to remotely controlled pilotless aircraft. Such drones were originally used largely by the military. Small, relatively inexpensive military drones have served as targets in combat practice since the 1940s, while high-performance models have been used in hazardous reconnaissance missions and to carry and launch missiles against enemy targets without exposing pilots and their far more expensive aircraft to antiaircraft fire.

Depending on the mission, drones can be equipped with armament, radar, video cameras, lasers, or sensors for chemical or biological weapons; drones typically can stay aloft without refueling for much longer periods of time than piloted airplanes. Guidance of the drone can originate from an airplane, a ship, a ground station, or a satellite link; a satellite link enables a drone to be guided by an operator stationed thousands of miles away. Building upon the successful use of drones in the Second Persian Gulf War and in Afghanistan, the Homeland Security Department adopted unmanned aircraft to track drug smugglers, illegal immigrants, and terrorists along the U.S. borders. In the United States and elsewhere, drones are increasingly used by law enforcement and security agencies. As drones have become smaller and increasingly less expensive, they also have employed by criminals (such as smugglers) and by otherwise less technologically sophisticated military forces and armed groups.

Nonpolicing scientific, public safety, and commercial uses include monitoring crops, helping fight forest fires, atmospheric and wildlife research, filmmaking and photography, news and sports reporting, and delivery of medicine, supplies, and products. The drones used for many of these purposes are typically smaller devices that are lifted and propelled by helicopterlike rotors. Such drones are also increasingly popular with recreational hobbyists. The commercial and recreational use of drones has led to significant concern over the aviation and public safety and the privacy issues associated with their more widespread use. The Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for operational and safety regulations governing the commercial use of drones, and now requires that users register drones weighing more that .55 lb (.25 kg). Recreational users are relatively unregulated (compared to commericial users).

Early attempts to use unmanned aerial vehicles are documented as early as the U.S. Civil War. Both Union and Confederate troops launched balloons loaded with explosives in the hope that the balloons would come down inside ammunition or supply depots and explode, but the balloons were at the mercy of the prevailing winds and proved largely ineffective. Toward the end of World War II the Japanese launched similarly ineffective high-altitude balloons loaded with incendiary and other explosives in the hope that winds would carry them to the United States, where they would start forest fires. A U.S. project at about the same time, called "Operation Aphrodite," involved using a modified manned aircraft as a cruise missile. The pilot would take off, get the plane to altitude, pass control to a manned aircraft through a radio link, and then bail out. The somewhat more successful German V-1 was essentially an early cruise missilecruise missile,
low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to develop a
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, not a remote-controlled drone. By the Vietnam War the technology to launch and control drones had evolved. Initially, pilotless aircraft equipped with video cameras flew over North Vietnam to provide reconnaissance data; drones were later used to drop leaflets, interfere with electronic communications, and locate surface-to-air missile batteries. By the early 21st cent., small, hand-launched drones were used by U.S. ground forces to scout otherwise obscured areas, and very small bird- and insectlike drones had been developed.

Bibliography

See study by N. Friedman (2010).

drone

[drōn] (aerospace engineering) A pilotless aircraft usually subordinated to the controlling influences of a remotely located command station, but occasionally preprogrammed. (invertebrate zoology) A haploid male bee or ant; one of the three castes in a colony.

drone

i. An aerial vehicle that is remotely or automatically controlled. Normally used as a decoy to confuse enemy radars. Also used as a target or tow vehicle for tow bodies that are meant to be used as targets.
ii. The low, monotonous, humming sound of aircraft engines heard from a distance.

drone

11. a male bee in a colony of social bees, whose sole function is to mate with the queen 2. a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft

drone

21. Musica. a sustained bass note or chord of unvarying pitch accompanying a melody b. (as modifier): a drone bass 2. Music one of the single-reed pipes in a set of bagpipes, used for accompanying the melody played on the chanter

DRONE


AcronymDefinition
DRONEDatsun Roadster Owners of New England (car club)
DRONEA Normally Unmanned Land Sea or Air Vehicle

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Synonyms for drone

noun parasite

Synonyms

  • parasite
  • skiver
  • idler
  • lounger
  • piker
  • leech
  • loafer
  • couch potato
  • scrounger
  • sponger
  • sluggard
  • bludger

verb hum

Synonyms

  • hum
  • buzz
  • vibrate
  • purr
  • whirr
  • thrum

noun hum

Synonyms

  • hum
  • buzz
  • purr
  • vibration
  • whirr
  • whirring
  • thrum

phrase drone on

Synonyms

  • speak monotonously
  • drawl
  • chant
  • spout
  • intone
  • talk interminably

Synonyms for drone

noun a self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity

Synonyms

  • bum
  • fainéant
  • good-for-nothing
  • idler
  • layabout
  • loafer
  • ne'er-do-well
  • no-good
  • slugabed
  • sluggard
  • wastrel
  • do-little
  • do-nothing
  • lazybones
  • slug
  • slouch

verb to make a continuous low-pitched droning sound

Synonyms

  • bumble
  • burr
  • buzz
  • hum
  • whir
  • whiz

noun a continuous low-pitched droning sound

Synonyms

  • bumble
  • burr
  • buzz
  • hum
  • whir
  • whiz

Synonyms for drone

noun stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

Related Words

  • bee

noun an unchanging intonation

Synonyms

  • droning
  • monotone

Related Words

  • intonation
  • pitch contour
  • modulation

noun someone who takes more time than necessary

Synonyms

  • dawdler
  • laggard
  • lagger
  • trailer
  • poke

Related Words

  • do-nothing
  • idler
  • layabout
  • loafer
  • bum
  • lingerer
  • loiterer
  • slowcoach
  • slowpoke
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • plodder
  • potterer
  • putterer
  • straggler
  • strayer

noun an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

Synonyms

  • pilotless aircraft
  • radio-controlled aircraft

Related Words

  • heavier-than-air craft

noun a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

Synonyms

  • bourdon
  • drone pipe

Related Words

  • bagpipe
  • pipe

verb make a monotonous low dull sound

Related Words

  • sound
  • go

verb talk in a monotonous voice

Synonyms

  • drone on

Related Words

  • mouth
  • speak
  • talk
  • verbalise
  • verbalize
  • utter
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