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The definition of a drone is someone who follows a schedule and doesn’t change it.

(noun)

An example of a drone is a low-level businessman who is into work by 6am and doesn’t leave until 6pm.

A drone is defined as a bee or any that only helps the queen to mate.

(noun)

An example of a drone is a bee that is always around the queen but doesn’t collect pollen.

Drone is a remote controlled airplane without a pilot on board.

(noun)

An example of a drone is a plane sent into enemy territory.

Drone means a low tone that doesn’t stop.

(noun)

An example of a drone is the sound of a bagpipe.

To drone is defined as to make a low sound without stopping.

(verb)

An example of to drone is to hum.

To drone means to talk without changing the tone of your voice.

(verb)

An example of to drone is a boring professor reading notes without any emphasis.

See drone in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a male bee or ant which serves only in a reproductive capacity and does no work
an idle person who lives by the work of others; parasite; loafer
a person whose work is routine, monotonous, etc.; drudge
a pilotless airplane that is directed in flight by remote control

Origin: ME < OE dran, akin to OS dran, MLowG drone < IE *dhren- < base *dher-, to buzz, hum > dor(beetle)

intransitive verb droned, droning

to live in idleness; loaf

intransitive verb droned, droning

to make a continuous and monotonous humming or buzzing sound
to talk on and on in a dull, monotonous way

Origin: LME dronen < drone

transitive verb

to utter in a dull, monotonous tone

noun

a continuous and monotonous humming or buzzing sound
1. a bagpipe
2. any of the pipes of fixed tone in a bagpipe
1. a bass voice or part, sustaining a single low tone
2. such a tone

See drone in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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.
An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: “undervalued drones who labored in obscurity” (Caroline Bates).
A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English drān

verb droned droned, dron·ing, drones

verb, intransitive

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

verb, transitive

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

noun

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

Origin:

Origin: From drone¹ (from the bee's humming sound)

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