- drone - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
--1 is a kind of bee
- monotone, drone, droning - an unchanging intonation
--2 is a kind of intonation, modulation, pitch contour
Derived form: verb drone2 - dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
--3 is a kind of idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
--3 has particulars:loiterer, lingerer; plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach; putterer, potterer; straggler, strayer - drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft - an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
--4 is a kind of heavier-than-air craft
- drone, drone pipe, bourdon - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
--5 is a kind of pipe, tabor pipe
--5 is a part of bagpipe, pipes - monotone, drone, droning - an unchanging intonation
- drone - make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"
--1 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun droning1
Something ----s
- drone, drone on - talk in a monotonous voice
--2 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun drone2, noun droning1
Sam and Sue drone