Look up: Drone

1. Drone
   In music a drone is a monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
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2. drone
   male bee person who isn't self-employed 
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3. drone
   an unchanging pitch that is held beneath a melody and so serves as an aural reference point. Drones are added by modern-day performers to some pieces (e.g. to Hildegard's music or to troubadour-trouvère repertory). Medieval notation never indicates where a drone should be used or what pitch it shou...
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4. drone
   [n] - an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control 2. [n] - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone 3. [n] - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen 4. [v] ...
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5. drone
   the low frequency noise of an engine Category: Mechanical engineering
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6. Drone
   Drone noun [ Middle English drane a dronebee, Anglo-Saxon drān ; akin to Old Saxon drān , Old High German treno , German drohne , Dan. drone , confer Greek ... a kind of wasp, dial. Greek ... dron...
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7. Drone
   Drone intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Droned ; present participle & verbal noun Droning .] [ Confer (for sense 1) Dutch dreunen , German dröhnen , Icelandic ...
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8. drone
   1. <zoology> The male of bees, especially. Of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. 'All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive.' (Dryden) ... 2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. 'By living as a drone,to be a...
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9. drone
   drone pipe noun a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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10. drone
    noun stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
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11. drone
    drone on verb talk in a monotonous voice
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12. drone
    verb make a monotonous low dull sound; `The harmonium was droning on`
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13. drone
    radio-controlled aircraft noun an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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14. Drone
    • (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth. • (v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound. • (v. i.) The male of bee...
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15. drone
    (from the article `military aircraft`) The first remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) were small, pilotless aircraft controlled by command radio transmission. Most of these fell into one of ...
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16. drone
    (from the article `beekeeping`) ...of the queen bee, a fertilized female capable of laying a thousand or more eggs per day; from a few to 60,000 sexually undeveloped females, the ... Drones are reared only when the colony is populous and there are plentiful sources of nectar and pollen. They usually live a few weeks, but are ... The ...
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17. drone
    in music, a sustained tone, usually rather low in pitch, providing a sonorous foundation for a melody or melodies sounding at a higher pitch level. ... [9 related articles]
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18. Drone
    the male honey bee.
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19. drone
    drone or remotely piloted vehicle,a pilotless craft guided by remote control. Aircraft, ships, and land vehicles can be designed or outfitted as drones, although underwater vessels—both piloted and pilotless—are usually called submersibles. Small, relatively inexpensive military drones a...
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20. Drone
    Drone is slang for a dull, lifeless, idle person who lives off another.
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21. Drone
    Drone is slang for a dull, lifeless, idle person who lives off another.
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22. Drone
    A drone is a mature male bee which are produced at the same time as a virgin queen for the purpose of continuing the community.
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23. drone
    (music) In music, a continuous accompanying note usually played in the bass. Its main feature is that it is sustained or persistently repeated throughout a piece or part of a piece of music. It is found in many classical and folk traditions, is common in the vocal music of the Russian, Greek, ...
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24. Drone
    a reproductive male in social insects
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25. Drone
    the male honey bee.
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