drone
US: /ˈdɹoʊn/
UK: /dɹˈəʊn/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
drone /droun/- danh từ
- (động vật học) ong mật đực
- kẻ lười biếng, kẻ ăn không ngồi rồi
- tiếng o o, tiếng vo ve
- bài nói đều đều; người nói giọng đều đều
- kèn túi; tiếng ò è (của kèn túi)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (hàng không) máy bay không người lái
- động từ
- kêu o o, kêu vo ve; kêu ò è (như tiếng kèn túi)
- nói giọng đều đều
- ((thường) + away) làm biếng, ăn không ngồi rồi
- to drone away one's life: ăn không ngồi rồi phí hết cuộc đời
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [usually sing.] a continuous low noise: the distant drone of traffic + He spoke in a low drone.
2 [usually sing.] a continuous low sound made by some musical instruments, for example the BAGPIPES, over which other notes are played or sung
3 a male bee that does not work and only lives in order to reproduce
Compare: QUEEN BEE, WORKER
4 a person who is lazy and gives nothing to society while others work: The medieval lord of the manor was what some today would call a drone.
5 an aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground
+ verb [V] to make a continuous low noise: A plane was droning in the distance. + a droning voice
Phrasal Verbs: drone on (about sth) to talk for a long time in a boring way
Collocation
ADJ.
faint | low | distant | constant, continuous, steady
VERB + DRONE
hear
PREP.
with a ~
The planes flew overhead with a low drone.
| ~ of
the continuous drone of the engine
Concise dictionary
drones|droned|droningdrəʊnnoun
+stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
+an unchanging intonation
+someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
+an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
+a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
verb
+make a monotonous low dull sound
+talk in a monotonous voice
