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drone 音標拼音: [dr'on] n. 雄蜂,懶惰者,嗡嗡的聲音,靶標
vi. 嗡嗡作聲,混日子
vt. 低沉地說出 雄蜂,懶惰者,嗡嗡的聲音,靶標嗡嗡作聲,混日子低沈地說出 drone 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 [ synonym: { monotone}, { drone}, { droning}] 3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [ synonym: { dawdler}, { drone}, { laggard}, { lagger}, { trailer}, { poke}] 4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control [ synonym: { drone}, { pilotless aircraft}, { radio- controlled aircraft}] 5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone [ synonym: { drone}, { drone pipe}, { bourdon}] v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; " The harmonium was droning on" 2: talk in a monotonous voice [ synonym: { drone}, { drone on}] Drone \ Drone\, n. [ OE. drane a dronebee, AS. dr[= a] n; akin to OS. dr[= a] n, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. ? a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. ? drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See { Drone}, v. i.] 1. ( Zool.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See { Honeybee}. [ 1913 Webster] All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. [ 1913 Webster] By living as a drone, to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. -- Burton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: ( a) A drum. [ Obs.] Halliwell. ( b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A humming or deep murmuring sound. [ 1913 Webster] The monotonous drone of the wheel. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mus.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition. [ 1913 Webster]
Drone \ Drone\ ( dr[= o] n), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Droned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Droning}.] [ Cf. ( for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dr[" o] hnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dr[" o] na to bellow, drone, Dan. dr[" o] ne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. ? dirge, ? to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound. Cf. { Drone}, n.] 1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. [ 1913 Webster] Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. -- T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. " Race of droning kings." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 237 Moby Thesaurus words for " drone": Indian file, accompaniment, alliteration, alto, array, articulation, assonance, bagpipe, bagpipes, bank, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, bee, beggar, birr, blubber, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bourdon, bum, bumble, bumblebee, bummer, burden, burr, buzz, cadger, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chanter, chest voice, chime, clockwork regularity, coloratura, concatenation, connection, consecution, constancy, continue the same, continuo, continuum, contralto, cornemuse, coupon clippers, course, cycle, daily round, dawdle, dawdler, descant, descent, dingdong, doodlesack, drag along, drag on, drone bass, droning, endless belt, endless round, even pace, even tenor, falsetto, figured bass, file, filiation, foot- dragger, freeloader, gabble, gamut, gibber, gibbering, goldbrick, goof- off, gradation, ground bass, harping, head voice, honeybee, hornet, hum, humdrum, idle rich, invariability, jabber, jibber, jingle, jingle- jangle, laggard, lallygag, laze, leisure class, lie- abed, line, lineage, lingerer, loaf, loiter, loiterer, loll, lounge, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, maunder, maundering, mendicant, monologue, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, moocher, mouth, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuring, musette, mutter, muttering, near rhyme, nexus, nonworker, orderliness, panhandler, parasite, part, pendulum, periodicity, persist, pipes, pitter- patter, plain chant, plain song, plenum, plodder, powder train, prevail, prick song, procrastinator, progression, purr, queen, queen bee, queue, range, rank, recurrence, regularity, rentiers, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation, rhyme, rotation, round, routine, row, run, run through, sameliness, sameness, scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong, slant rhyme, sleepyhead, slow goer, slow- foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, smoothness, snail, sob, soprano, sordellina, speak incoherently, spectrum, spiv, splutter, sponger, sputter, stale repetition, stick- in- the- mud, string, strum, succession, susurrate, susurration, swath, tedium, tenor, the unemployable, the unemployed, thorough bass, thread, thrum, tier, tortoise, train, treadmill, treble, trot, undersong, undeviation, undifferentiation, union pipes, unnecessary repetition, unvariation, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice, voice part, wasp, whir, whisper, whispering, whiz, windrow, worker, yellow jacket
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