drone

• n. 雄の蜂；ブンブンという音；怠け者
• vi.ざわざわする；まごつく
• vt. 低い声で話す
• n. （ドローン）人の名前；（仏）ドローナ

オノマトペ。

drone (n.)

Old English dran, dr?n "male honeybee," from Proto-Germanic *dran- (cognates: 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 (compare threnody). The verb in the sound sense is early 16c.; it often is the characteristic sound of airplane engines. Related: Droned; droning.

1. The minister 's voice was a relentless drone .

部長はしきりにくどくど言っている.

2.the distant drone of traffic

遠くの車が往来するブーンという音

3.The planes flew overhead with a low drone .

飛行機は低い轟音を立てて頭上をかすめた。

4.It 's bad to drone .

混む日はよくありません。

5.It intervals the drone of an insect bored the air.

この静けさをぶんぶんと破る昆虫が時々います。