drone

Meanings

Plural: drones

Noun

• stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
• an unchanging intonation
• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
• an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
• a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
• A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
• One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
• One who performs menial or tedious work.
• A remotely operated vehicle.
• An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
• A remotely operated vehicle.
• Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
• A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
• One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
• In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask.
• A low-pitched hum or buzz.
• One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
• A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
• A humming or deep murmuring sound.
• The drug mephedrone.

Verb

• make a monotonous low dull sound
• talk in a monotonous voice
• To kill or destroy with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
• To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
• To speak in a monotone.

Synonyms

bourdon, dawdler, drone music, drone on, drone pipe, droning, drudge, laggard, lagger, meow, monotone, pilotless aircraft, poke, radio-controlled aircraft, ROUV, ROV, trailer, UAS, UAV