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Vinony

drone

verb

  1. talk continually in a monotone
  2. dull, continued, low, monotonous sound
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noun

  1. harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece
  2. male bee, wasp or hornet
  3. flying robotic device
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/ / /dɹoʊn/

name

Etymology: * As a German surname, spelling variant of Drohne, a city in Westphalia. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Drane. * As an Irish surname, spelling variant of Drohan; as a Scottish Gaelic surname, spelling variant of Dron in Perthshire.

  1. A surname.

noun

  1. The drug mephedrone.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

  1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
  2. To speak in a monotone.