(n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
(v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon has been called the "bagpipe" stomach.
(2) This is not, perhaps, an essential stop-off on strict craft beer terms, but it is worth seeing for the building and – if such music is your bagpipes - the nightly traditional folk sessions that the Onion hosts with cultural centre An Droichead .
(3) About half a dozen of the vocal minority were camped outside the Ineos compound on Tuesday, one playing his own set of bagpipes with impressive flames shooting out of them.
(4) The lack of drama – the merciful absence of bagpipes-and-Braveheart-bullshit – at the paper’s launch was quite deliberate.
(5) "Paul, as I understand it, the situation with the vuvuzelas is rather as if the World Cup was played in Scotland, and thousands of people bought plastic, imitation bagpipes made in China and played them continually through every match," summarises Alan Cooper. "
(6) Gathering outside their tents in the shadow of St Paul's soaring facade, the Occupy London protestors are a motley crowd, with their bagpipes, dogs and earnest discussion groups at the "University of Tent City", but their anger is heartfelt.
(7) Hugh Jackman sang Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage at the end of the ceremony and bagpipers from the New York City police department played on the streets as mourners filed out of Temple Emanu-El, many dabbing their eyes.
(8) It is an argument, in that case, which might easily, without bagpipes or warriors, appeal to residents of any impoverished and resentful region of the United Kingdom, if only they had the means and a similar certainty that, left to themselves, a more equal society would result.
(9) Johnson resolutely declined to emerge from his home to greet a gathering press, a bagpiper in full musical flow, and Kay Burley of Sky News knocking on his door at 4.50am.
(10) The latest additions include a Mongolian camel coaxing ritual, bagpipe culture in Slovakia and Tinian marble craftsmanship in Greece.
(11) In an interview with the American financial magazine Bloomberg Money Markets, he said that people abroad associate Scotland with 'whisky, tartan, bagpipes, and golf'.
(12) Drums and bagpipes were also played during the occupation of the store, which lasted a number of hours.
(13) It is not long since Salmond attended the premiere of Pixar's Brave (with its acclaimed bagpipe soundtrack) in tartan trews.
(14) Accompanied by the sound of a lone Scottish bagpiper, the Insight slid serenely under the Forth Bridge in the blue dawn light, bound inexorably for Grangemouth.
(15) We’ve all said this so many times: The one person who would really think this is the greatest thing ever is the lady who it’s all about and she’s not here,” said Norville afterward, amid the throngs of well-wishers and sound of bagpipes.
(16) Bagpipes, of course, have been banned by the tournament organisers.
(17) The man was wearing a backpack, top zip tugged open to make room for the bits of bagpipe he had stashed inside.
(18) In reality, they were the bagpipes played by Scottish soldiers.
(19) But, for now, the spotlight is on McAllister, who marched, Braveheart-style, out of the campaign rally to the CDU's election anthem, a punchy bagpipe rock number whose lyrics include the line: "Our chieftain is a Scot and we are a strong clan."
(20) Prince William and the royal party could have been forgiven for not noticing, but there was a part of Quebec that had no intention of welcoming him and his wife, except with whistles, saucepan lids, vuvuzelas and, incongruously, bagpipes.
Drone
Definition:
(v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
(v. i.) One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
(v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
(v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
(v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
(n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
(n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
(3) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(4) They tried to follow the drones, but lost them.” “Immediately after Cazeneuve’s statement, there were two overflights and the day after that, there were seven,” he added.
(5) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(6) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.
(7) Other kinds of intelligence, particularly that on the effect of drone attacks on the leadership of al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan , also suggest that the frontier zone is not the sanctuary it once was.
(8) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
(9) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(10) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(11) Other governments have been notably more receptive to the idea of semi-autonomous drones.
(12) The ACLU is currently involved in a legal battle with the US government over the legal memo underlying the controversial targeted killing programme, the basis for drone strikes that have killed American citizens and the process by which individuals are placed on the kill list.
(13) Last month, an unmanned drone strike in Pakistan near the Afghan border killed one of Jalaluddin Haqqani's sons – Badruddin, who was considered a vital part of the Haqqani structure.
(14) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
(15) Flirtey is yet to receive regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) – it first contacted the regulatory body on Thursday – and the drones can fly only 3km before needing to recharge, but the company is confident improvements in the technology will increase its reach.
(16) The legal action, brought by the law firm Leigh Day & Co and the legal action charity Reprieve, is directed against Hague on behalf of Noor Khan, whose father was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan last year.
(17) The past week has seen a significant increase in air strikes and renewed drone attacks.
(18) and the laws of this country.... We're depriving American citizens of their life when we target them in drone attacks," King says.
(19) In the letter, Gadahn – who the White House has announced was killed in a US drone stike in January – told the al-Qaida leader that Benjamin Franklin had never been a president of the United States and warned that if he or Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s deputy, made the mistake in propaganda speeches, their credibility would suffer.
(20) A year ago, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ghanaian health service conducted a pilot initiative, using drones to deliver contraceptives to women in remote rural areas.