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blimp
English
Etymology
Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A.D. Conningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
- “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: bl?mp IPA(key): /bl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
blimp (plural blimps)
- (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
- 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker:
- The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium
- 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker:
- (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
- 2018 July 14, Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London, Evening Standard:
- a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies
- 2018 July 14, Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London, Evening Standard:
- (slang) An obese person.
- A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
- A soundproof cover for a video camera.
Synonyms
- barrage balloon
- Gossage
- nonrigid
Hypernyms
- airship
- dirigible
Derived terms
- Blimp
- blimpish
Translations
Verb
blimp (third-person singular simple present blimps, present participle blimping, simple past and past participle blimped)
- (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
- After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
- Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
- (transitive) To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.
Derived terms
- self-blimped
Synonyms
- blimp out
- blimp up
Translations
See also
- airship
- balloon
- dirigible
- zeppelin, Zeppelin
Further reading
- blimp at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “blimp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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drone
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?o?n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Middle English drane, from Old English dr?n, from Proto-West Germanic *dr?nu, from Proto-Germanic *dr?niz, *dr?nuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?r?n- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
Cognate with Dutch drone (“male bee or wasp”), Low German drone (“drone”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Danish drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
In sense “unmanned aircraft”, due to early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths. The verb sense derives from this sense.
Noun
drone (plural drones)
- A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
- (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v[2]:
- SHYLOCK:
- The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
- Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
- More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me;
- Therefore I part with him; and part with him
- To one what I would have him help to waste
- His borrowed purse. […]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 117:
- he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve.
- by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v[2]:
- One who performs menial or tedious work.
- Synonym: drudge
- (aviation) A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- Synonyms: UAV, UAS
- Hyponym: quadcopter
Usage notes
- In sense “unmanned aircraft”, primarily used informally of military aircraft or consumer radio controlled quadcopters, without precise definition.
Translations
Descendants
- ? Spanish: dron
- ? Polish: dron
- ? Asturian: dron
Verb
drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)
- (transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
Etymology 2
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjan? (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“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”).
Verb
drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)
- To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
- To speak in a monotone way.
Translations
Noun
drone (plural drones)
- A low-pitched hum or buzz.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
- A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- The monotonous drone of the wheel.
Translations
Further reading
- drone (bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- drone (aircraft) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- Doner, Roden, doner, nerdo, orned, redon, renod, ronde
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English drone (“aircraft drone”). Doublette with dar (“male bee”), which descended from Middle Dutch, cf. Limburgish dreen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dro?n/
- Hyphenation: drone
- Rhymes: -o?n
Noun
drone m (plural drones, diminutive droontje n)
- a remotely controlled aircraft; a drone
Derived terms
- droneaanval
Finnish
Etymology
< English drone
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?drone/, [?dro?ne?]
- Rhymes: -one
- Syllabification: dro?ne
Noun
drone
- (Anglicism) drone (type of unmanned aircraft)
Declension
Synonyms
- drooni
- lennokki
French
Etymology
From English drone
Noun
drone m (plural drones)
- drone (unmanned aircraft)
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
From English drone
Noun
drone m (invariable)
- drone (unmanned aircraft)
Anagrams
- derno, dreno, drenò, rendo, ronde
Middle English
Noun
drone
- Alternative form of drane
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).
Noun
drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural droner, definite plural dronene)
- a drone (male bee)
- a drone (radio-controlled pilotless aircraft)
Synonyms
- dronefly (aircraft)
References
- “drone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dru?n?/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural dronar, definite plural dronane)
- drone (male bee)
- drone (unmanned aircraft)
Synonyms
- (male bee): hannbie
- (aircraft): dronefly
References
- “drone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English drone.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?d??.n?/, [?d??.n?]
- Hyphenation: dro?ne
Noun
drone m (plural drones)
- drone (unmanned aircraft)
References
Spanish
Alternative forms
- dron
Etymology
From English drone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?on/, [?d??õn]
Noun
drone m (plural drones)
- drone
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