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List of meaning for drone

to make a continuous hum or buzz sound

drone(noun)

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

monotone, drone, droning(noun)

an unchanging intonation

dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke(noun)

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

drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft(noun)

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

drone, drone pipe, bourdon(verb)

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

drone(verb)

make a monotonous low dull sound

"The harmonium was droning on"

drone, drone on(verb)

talk in a monotonous voice

a lazy person

those drones just lie around while we do all the work

a person who does very hard or dull work

after lunch my fellow drones and I shuffle back to our cubicles

a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion

heard the drone of an airplane overhead

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound

the sound of droning bees all around us

to spend time doing nothing

instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents

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