drone
/droʊn/
verb
- To make a continuous low humming sound.
- A plane droned overhead all afternoon.
- The refrigerator droned quietly in the corner of the kitchen.
- The engine droned as the car climbed the hill.
- To speak in a boring, monotonous way for a long time.
- The professor droned on about the history of paperclips.
- He droned through his speech without making eye contact.
- Please don't drone about your vacation photos for another hour.
noun
- An unmanned aircraft or flying vehicle controlled remotely or by computer.
- The farmer used a drone to check on his crops from above.
- The military drone flew over the mountains to gather information.
- A delivery drone dropped off the package in my backyard.
- A continuous low humming sound.
- The drone of the air conditioner made it hard to concentrate.
- We could hear the drone of a lawnmower from next door.
- The bee's drone filled the garden on a summer afternoon.
- A male bee that does not sting and whose only job is to mate with the queen.
- After mating, the drone bee dies.
- In a hive, drones are larger than worker bees but smaller than the queen.
- The drone bee does not collect nectar or pollen.
- A person who does boring, repetitive work without much thought or effort.
- The office drones shuffled in at nine o'clock sharp.
- He felt like a drone in the factory, doing the same task every day.
- She didn't want to be a drone; she wanted a job that challenged her.
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