- the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- an uncrewed military aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond the line of sight: We picked up the GPS signal of a U.S. spy drone.They used a radio-controlled drone to test the weapon in an isolated spot.
- (loosely) any uncrewed airborne device, especially a small one, that is guided remotely: used for industrial, commercial, and recreational purposes, such as photography and filming, delivery, mining, etc.: The grocery company will test drones for home delivery and pickup.
- a drudge: I don't want to be a drone who mindlessly does exactly what I'm told, but rather someone who asserts a little control in my work.
- a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer: That lazy drone was asleep when he should have been weeding the garden.
- to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
- to speak in a monotonous tone.
- to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner (usually followed by on): The meeting droned on for hours.
- to say in a dull, monotonous tone.
- Music.
- a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments.
- the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone.
- a bagpipe equipped with such pipes.
- a monotonous low tone; humming or buzzing sound.
- a person who speaks in a monotonous tone.
- a male bee in a colony of social bees, whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- a person who lives off the work of others
- a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft
- to make a monotonous low dull sound; buzz or hum
- to utter (words) in a monotonous tone, esp to talk without stopping
- a monotonous low dull sound
- music
- a sustained bass note or chord of unvarying pitch accompanying a melody
- (as modifier)
- one of the single-reed pipes in a set of bagpipes, used for accompanying the melody played on the chanter
- a person who speaks in a low monotonous tone
