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drone
 
Noun drone has 5 senses
  1. drone - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
    --1 is a kind of     bee
  2. monotone, drone, droning - an unchanging intonation
    --2 is a kind of intonation, modulation, pitch contour
    Derived form: verb drone2
  3. dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
    --3 is a kind of idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
    --3 has particulars:
     loiterer, lingerer; plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach; putterer, potterer; straggler, strayer
  4. drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft - an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
    --4 is a kind of heavier-than-air craft
  5. drone, drone pipe, bourdon - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
    --5 is a kind of pipe, tabor pipe
    --5 is a part of bagpipe, pipes
Verb drone has 2 senses
  1. drone - make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"
    --1 is one way to     sound, go
    Derived form: noun droning1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. drone, drone on - talk in a monotonous voice
    --2 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
    Derived forms: noun drone2, noun droning1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue drone
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