drone
verb
[ drəʊn ]
• make a continuous low humming sound.
• "in the far distance a machine droned"
Similar:
hum,
buzz,
whir,
vibrate,
murmur,
rumble,
purr,
hiss,
whisper,
sigh,
drone
noun
• a continuous low humming sound.
• "he nodded off to the drone of the car engine"
Similar:
hum,
buzz,
whir,
whirring,
vibration,
murmur,
murmuring,
purr,
purring,
hiss,
hissing,
whisper,
whispering,
sigh,
• a continuous musical note of low pitch.
• "the drone rose by a third to A"
• a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
• a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or small flying device.
• "pilots use remote controls to guide a stealth reconnaissance drone"
Origin:
Old English drān, drǣn ‘male bee’, from a West Germanic verb meaning ‘resound, boom’; related to Dutch dreunen ‘to drone’, German dröhnen ‘to roar’, and Swedish dröna ‘to drowse’.
