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Synonyms
drone1 (drōn)

[Middle English, from Old English drān.]

noun 

  1. A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
  2. An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
  3. A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: “undervalued drones who labored in obscurity” (Caroline Bates)
  4. A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control.
drone2 (drōn)

[From drone1 (from the bee's humming sound).]

verb: droned, dron·ing, drones. 

intransitive verb 

  1. To make a continuous low dull humming sound: “Somewhere an electric fan droned without end” (William Styron)
  2. To speak in a monotonous tone: The lecturer droned on for hours.
  3. To pass or act in a monotonous way.

transitive verb 

To utter in a monotonous low tone: “The mosquitoes droned their angry chant” (W. Somerset Maugham)

noun 

  1. A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.
  2. Music
    1. Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.
    2. A long sustained tone.
    3. Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.