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51drone — A drone is the male of the honey bee, famous for doing no work. ‘Drone’ has therefore been applied to an idle person since the early sixteenth century, occasionally as a vocative. Thus Dromio of Syracuse, in The Comedy of Errors (2:ii), is… …
52drone — drone1 [ droun ] verb intransitive to make a low continuous noise ,drone on phrasal verb intransitive to talk about something for a long time in a very boring way drone drone 2 [ droun ] noun count 1. ) a low continuous sound: the drone of the… …
53drone — 1 verb (I) to make a continuous low dull sound: An airplane droned overhead. drone on phrasal verb (I) to speak in a boring way, usually for a long time (+ about): Tom was droning on about work. 2 noun (C) 1 the drone (of) a continuous low dull… …
54drone — I [[t]droʊn[/t]] n. 1) ent 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;… …
55drone fly — noun : a nearly cosmopolitan two winged fly (Eristalis tenax) of the family Syrphidae superficially resembling the drone bee see rat tailed larva * * * drone fly noun A hoverfly • • • Main Entry: ↑drone * * * n. a hoverfly that resembles a… …
56drone — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drān; akin to Old High German treno drone, Greek thrēnos dirge Date: before 12th century 1. the male of a bee (as the honeybee) that has no sting and gathers no honey 2. one that lives on the… …
57drone — 1. noun /drəʊn/ a) A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen. he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his… …
58drone on — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms drone on : present tense I/you/we/they drone on he/she/it drones on present participle droning on past tense droned on past participle droned on to talk about something for a long time in a very boring way …
59drone — [drəʊn] verb [I] I to make a low continuous noise • drone on II noun [singular] drone [drəʊn] a low continuous sound …
60drone — I. noun 1. the male of the honey bee and other bees, stingless and making no honey. 2. someone who lives on the labour of others; an idler; a sluggard. 3. a remotely controlled mechanism, as a radio controlled aeroplane or boat. 4. an unmanned… …
