drone

[drone]

To drone is to make a low, continuous noise that sounds like humming or buzzing. On summer nights, you might hear cicadas drone, and on snowy winter mornings, hear your neighbor's snow blower drone.

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The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

Noun
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

Noun
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

Noun
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

Noun
an unchanging intonation

Noun
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

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Verb
talk in a monotonous voice

Verb
make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"


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.


Drone

Drone , n. [OE. drane a dronebee, AS. dr'ben; akin to OS. dr'ben, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See Drone, v. i.] 1. (Zo'94l.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
3. 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. 4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
The monotonous drone of the wheel.
5. (Mus.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

Drone

Drone , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Droned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Droning.] [Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dr'94hnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dr'94na to bellow, drone, Dan. dr'94ne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. dirge, to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound. Cf. Drone, n.] 1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
Where the beetle wheels his droning flight.
2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. "Race of droning kings." Dryden.

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

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