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Definition: Drogue |
DrogueNoun1. A funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane. 2. A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind. 3. Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind. 4. A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | 1. A device, usually shaped like a funnel or cone, dragged or towed behind something and used, e.g., as a sea anchor. 2. A funnel-shaped part at the end of the hose of a tanker aircraft, used in air refueling to drag the hose out and stabilize it and to receive the probe of the receiving aircraft.3. = drogue parachute. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A device for keeping a small boat's head into the wind and sea. One type used consists of a cone shaped canvas tube open at both ends. A hawser or warp is fastened to ropes from the sea anchor which enable it to operate opened out by the sea entering the cone. A tripping line is fastened to the other end for hauling in. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A device attached to the reception coupling at the end of the refuelling hose of a tanker aircraft, usually of conical shape. By means of its own drag, it extends and stabilizes the hose during trailing and provides an aiming point for a probe. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Conical parachute used specifically for stabilizing a towing mass such as a reentry body. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: DrogueSynonyms: drogue chute (n), drogue parachute (n), sea anchor (n), sock (n), wind sleeve (n), windsock (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drogue |
| Specialty definitions using "drogue": deceleration parachute, drag parachute ♦ face screen aperture. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Drogue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (dope, drug, stuff), Portuguese (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor, sea anchor). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Chemin de la drogue (1953) La Drogue fatale (1924) Scénario sur la drogue (2000) | |
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 | Figure 44. A buoy with a drogue used by the CHALLENGER Expedition in the Gulf Stream for current studies in 1873. The drogue acts like an underwater sail and is pushed by the current. The buoy allows visual tracking of the motion of the drogue. It was first tested off Bermuda in in 1873 in separate tests at 50 fathoms, 100 fathoms, and 600 fathoms. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | La Drogue Parlons - En. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Drogue attention!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| "Drogue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drogue" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
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Expressions using "drogue": drogue chute ♦ drogue parachute ♦ keep from the drogue. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drogue | 78 |
drogue speed | 5 |
drogue la | 4 |
drogue info | 4 |
dea drogue | 3 |
drogue du viol | 3 |
dmt drogue | 3 |
drogue fabrication | 3 |
drogue saisie | 3 |
drogue du kanabi la sexe | 2 |
chaussettes drogue travers vetements | 2 |
drogue poemes | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "drogue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spirancë për det, parashutë (parachute), kon-shenjë për ushtrime qitjeje, erëtregues (vane, weather vane, weathercock). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шамандура (buoy, float), корк на харпун, плаваща котва (water-anchor). (various references) | |
Danish | drivanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), stabiliseringsfaldskærm, lufttankningsslæbetragt. (various references) | |
Dutch | drijfanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), zeeanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), stopzak (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), sleepzak (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), sleeptrechter. (various references) | |
Finnish | meriankkuri (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), liitinsuppilo, laahusankkuri (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), jarrukartio, ajoankkuri (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor). (various references) | |
French | drogue (drug), parachute stabilisateur (drogue parachute), cône de ravitaillement, cône d'amarrage (docking drogue), ancre flottante (drift anchor). (various references) | |
German | Treibanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), Steuerschirm, Steuerfallschirm, Seeanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), Schwimmanker (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), Lenzsack (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), Fangtrichter. (various references) | |
Greek | σταθεροποιητικό αλεξίπτωτο, πλωτή άγκυρα (floating anchor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שרוול עו'ן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | úszóhorgony (sea anchor), célzsák (sleeve, sleeve target, towed), úsztatott fa (driftwood, raft, raft wood). (various references) | |
Italian | presa imbutiforme, ancora galleggiante (sea anchor), ncora idrodinamica (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor), ncora galleggiante (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor). (various references) | |
Manx | oashyr gheayee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oguedray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | drogue (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor). (various references) | |
Russian | буек. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | meta-konus, konusni vetrokaz. (various references) | |
Spanish | paracaídas estabilizador, paracaídas (parachute), embudo (funnel, trick), ancla flotante (sea anchor), ancla de capa (drag anchor, floating anchor, sea anchor). (various references) | |
Swedish | drivankare (sea anchor), vindstrut, boj (baize, buoy, float, nun buoy). (various references) | |
Turkish | manş tulumu, açık deniz demiri. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | плавучий якір. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drogue": drogues. (additional references) | |
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"Drogue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arogue, Arregui, darique, dergue, derouet, Dogru, Dogun, d'orgue, doroga, dragoe, drague, draguer, Dregne, drongo, droog, droue, Drouet, Oroogu, torgue, trouge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drogue" (pronounced drō"g) |
| 3 | -r ō" g | rogue. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gourde, rogued, rouged. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: erugo, gored, gourd, rogue, rouge, uredo, urged. | |
-2 letters: doer, doge, dore, dour, dreg, drug, dure, duro, ergo, euro, goer, gore, grue, gude, ogre, redo, rode, roue, rude, rued, urge. | |
-3 letters: doe, dog, dor, due, dug, duo, ego, erg, ged, god, gor, ode, ore, oud, our, red, reg, rod, roe, rue, rug, udo, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: drogues, gourdes, grouped, groused, grouted, guerdon, roughed, undergo. | |
+2 letters: berouged, doughier, forjudge, grouched, grounded, grounder, guerdons, gueridon, outraged, ragouted, reground, scourged, scrouged, trudgeon, underdog, undergod, unforged. | |
+3 letters: burgeoned, dangerous, detouring, devouring, doughtier, drugstore, forejudge, forjudged, forjudges, glamoured, greyhound, grounders, groundsel, guerdoned, gueridons, gunpowder, noseguard, outargued, outglared, outranged, overurged, prologued, promulged, prorogued, regrouped, roughened, scrounged, supergood, trudgeons, underdogs, undergods, undergoes, undergone, ungodlier, ungrouped. | |
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