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Drone Very Common

Drone has 12 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

2

an unchanging intonation

3

someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

4

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

5

a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

6

A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.

7

A low-pitched hum or buzz.

Verb
1

make a monotonous low dull sound

"The harmonium was droning on"

2

talk in a monotonous voice

3

To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

4

To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

See Also
uav droning honey bee dronist rpv drones tedious wasp
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
bee intonation idler heavier-than-air craft pipe sound talk
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
loiterer plodder putterer straggler
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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