» drone
Noun (5 meanings)
1. stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
drone is a type of:
- bee (noun) - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
drone is a type of:
- intonation, modulation, pitch contour (noun) - rise and fall of the voice pitch
drone is derivationally related to:
3. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.
drone is a type of:
- idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum (noun) - person who does no work
types of drone:
- loiterer, lingerer (noun) - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place
- plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach (noun) - someone who moves slowly
- putterer, potterer (noun) - a person who putters about
- straggler, strayer (noun) - someone who strays or falls behind
drone is derivationally related to:
- to dally, dawdle (verb) - waste time
- dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey (adjective) - wasting time
- to drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back (verb) - to lag or linger behind
- to lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind (verb) - hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- to linger, dawdle (verb) - take one's time
4. an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control.
drone is a type of:
- heavier-than-air craft (noun) - a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it
5. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone.
Verb (2 meanings)
1. make a monotonous low dull sound.
to drone
Example:
- “The harmonium was droning on”