drone
Nouns
- (n) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- (n) an unchanging intonation droning, monotone,
- (n) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke,
- (n) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft,
- (n) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone bourdon, drone pipe,
Verbs
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(v) make a monotonous low dull sound
- The harmonium was droning on
- (v) talk in a monotonous voice drone on,