1) Aerial footage aid 2) Aerial photography device 3) Airborne delivery device 4) Airborne intruder 5) Airplane sound 6) Airplane without a pilot 7) Amazon Prime Air deliverer 8) An unchanging intonation 9) Annoying hum 10) Annoying sound 11) Apiary member 12) Bagpipe emission 13) Bagpipe part 14) Bagpipe pipe
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1) Bee 2) Bourdon 3) Chant 4) Dawdler 5) Honeybee 6) Hum 7) Idler 8) Intone 9) Lagger 10) Lingerer 11) Loiterer 12) Potterer 13) Putterer 14) Slowcoach 15) Slowpoke 16) Straggler 17) Strayer 18) Trailer 19) Ululation 20) Worker
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• (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 bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See ...
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the male honey bee
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(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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(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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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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1. (bio) A reproductive male bee or ant. • ZOOLOGY 2. (aviation) A pilotless aircraft (from 1946). 3. (SF) In the Star Trek universe, a member of the Borg Collective. A Borg drone, like its insect counterpart, is efficient, expendable, and single-minded. Borg drones ar...
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The male honey bee.
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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 an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and...
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the male honey bee.
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a reproductive male in social insects
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Male bee. Drones die after mating with a queen. Drones are also expelled from the hive by worker bees (females) in late fall before wintering, or in dearth of available nectar flows. Drone egg to adult development period is 24 days.
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Drone intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Droned ;
present participle & verbal noun Droning .] [ Confer (for sense 1) Dutch
dreunen , German
dröhnen , Icelandic
drynja to roar,
drynr a roaring, S...
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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 ... drone. Prob. named from the droning sound. See
Dro...
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male bee person who isn't self-employedÂ
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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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In music a drone is a monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
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Drone is slang for a dull, lifeless, idle person who lives off another.
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A drone is a continuous pitch, held for an extended time beneath the melody to serve as an aural reference point. In early music, drones generally were not notated in manuscripts, so performers should use their judgment in using them. In fiddle music, drones are often played as double stops, with the fiddler playing a drone on one string, while ......
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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 should hold, so performers must use their good j...
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radio-controlled aircraft noun an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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drone pipe noun a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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(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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Dull, monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.
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