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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : drohn |
| Phonetic Transcription : droʊn |
Definition of droning
Origin :- Old English dran, dræn "male honeybee," from Proto-Germanic *dran- (cf. Middle Dutch drane; Old High German treno; German Drohne, which is from Middle Low German drone), probably imitative; given a figurative sense of "idler, lazy worker" (male bees make no honey) 1520s. Meaning "pilotless aircraft" is from 1946.
- Drones, as the radio-controlled craft are called, have many potentialities, civilian and military. Some day huge mother ships may guide fleets of long-distance, cargo-carrying airplanes across continents and oceans. Long-range drones armed with atomic bombs could be flown by accompanying mother ships to their targets and in for perfect hits. ["Popular Science," November, 1946]
- Meaning "deep, continuous humming sound" is early 16c., apparently imitative (cf. threnody). The verb in the sound sense is early 16c.; it often is the characteristic sound of airplane engines. Related: Droned; droning.
- verb making noise continuously
- Even the droning of the worrying mosquitoes had no power to disturb him.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- It came droning, droning up the forty-odd thousand miles from the planet.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Jed, absorbed in his work and droning a hymn, apparently forgot all about his caller.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Jed still sat there gazing at vacancy and droning, dolefully.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Over the droning of the hymn she caught the sound of a horse's hoofs on the road.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- The droning hum of the helicopter came across the broken ground.
- Extract from : « Invasion » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- Then the droning voice of the Puritan minister greeted them.
- Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
- Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- It was close to sunset when they heard a droning noise in the distance.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- It was warm in the sun, and the locusts were droning drowsily in the grass.
- Extract from : « The Goody-Naughty Book » by Sarah Cory Rippey
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