drone
ਡਰੋਨ
definition
verb
in the far distance a machine droned
make a continuous low humming sound.
noun
he nodded off to the drone of the car engine
a low continuous humming sound.
According to scientific descriptions, a honeybee colony consists of one queen, several thousand worker bees, and at certain times of the year, a few to several thousand drones , or male bees.
a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
example
The foreman on that building site was approached last week about it and I will continue to 'drone' on about it until is has been sorted.
‘There's something you want to say,’ he said, studying her complacent gaze as the even 'drone' of the moving car overtook her senses.
He explained that a hive of bees consists of a queen bee, a few hundred 'drone' bees and the remainder are workers.
My brother hummed turbine noises, but the 'drone' of thunder muted him.
Even when warm and cruising on the motorway it gives off a 'drone' , and tyre noise also intrudes.
For those who might not know, drones cannot sting, but, of course most people are not aware of this fact; and anyway how could you tell whether a bee was a 'drone' or not in a darkened cinema?
Gliders and microlights have replaced wartime bombers at Rufforth Airfield, and they fly over a York very different to that which once echoed to the 'drone' of the Halifax engines.
While Doria and Denardo clearly embrace the primal power of the 'drone' , their sound is loud but not dissonant or cacophonous, and is seldom if ever grating but instead clean.
She looked at it now, while she tuned out the monotonous 'drone' of her teacher's ramblings.
In fact, most serious energy enthusiasts are keen to distance themselves from those wacky New Age types who 'drone' on about our energy fields being affected by karmic laws.
You also have the 'drone' bee that doesn't do anything except fertilise the young queens.
Masses of mankind arose from inexpensive seating, emitting a 'drone' of noise, noises, actually, as small groups of people conversed about a number of subjects.
Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous 'drone' , and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
Tobias couldn't hear himself scream over the 'drone' of planes and noise of the explosions rattling the earth all around him.
Zac talked in a monotonous 'drone' about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
It doesn't help that the musical backing is a five-minute 'drone' of grating computerized noise.
It should have been a good line, but he sounded like a petulant 'drone' with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
This great change manifested itself in a sudden tiredness and slight nausea as the speaker's monotonous 'drone' confirmed exactly the opposite.
Track two of this CD starts with a low 'drone' and the sound of rain falling gently.
We were silent for a few moments, the 'drone' of the lesson buzzing like a fly in my ears.
The marching of our feet rings out in unison, an endless 'drone' accompanied by the clattering hooves of the knights' horses.
Occupying every single empty seat in sight, the crowd's continuous 'drone' echoed within the tall tent.
On a personal note, several of my most powerful dreams have involved a rising 'drone' or chanting sound.
The 'drone' begins to sound similar to a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the surrounding life.
In that 'drone' Harley heard an echo of the blues, but he also heard something deeper.
only twenty minutes of the hour-long 'drone' had passed
the 'drone' rose by a third to A
With a nuclear ballistic missile against a 'drone' , a near miss was counted as a hit.
he nodded off to the 'drone' of the car engine
Overhead, a 'drone' whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
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