drone
1. stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
bee
2. an unchanging intonation (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
monotone, droning
• Derivationally related forms:
drone (for: droning), monotone (for: monotone), monotonic (for: monotone)
• Hypernyms:
intonation, modulation, pitch contour
3. someone who takes more time than necessary;
someone who lags behind
• Syn:
dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke
• Derivationally related forms:
poky (for: poke), pokey (for: poke), trail (for: trailer), lag (for: lagger), lag (for: laggard), dawdle (for: dawdler)
• Hypernyms:
idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
• Hyponyms:
loiterer, lingerer, plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud,
slowcoach, putterer, potterer, straggler, strayer
4. an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
• Syn:
pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft
• Hypernyms:
heavier-than-air craft
5. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
• Syn:
drone pipe, bourdon
• Hypernyms:
pipe
• Part Holonyms:
bagpipe
1. make a monotonous low dull sound
- The harmonium was droning on
• Derivationally related forms:
droning
• Hypernyms:
sound, go
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. talk in a monotonous voice
• Syn:
drone on
• Derivationally related forms:
droning
• Hypernyms:
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Sam and Sue drone
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