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    [Noun]  | "drone" | \ ˈdrōn \


    1: a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen

    2: an uncrewed aircraft or vessel guided by remote control or onboard computers: such as

    3: a small remotely operated rotorcraft usually with a mounted camera


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English drān; akin to Old High German treno drone, Greek thrēnos dirge;

    [Noun]  | "drone" 


    1: a deep sustained or monotonous sound : hum

    2: an instrument or part of an instrument (such as one of the fixed-pitch pipes of a bagpipe) that sounds a continuous unvarying tone

    3: pedal point


    Origin: 1502 ;

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    [Verb]  | "drone" 


    1: to make a sustained deep murmuring, humming, or buzzing sound

    2: to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone

    3: to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner


    Origin: circa 1520 ;

     See: ;

    [Phrasal verb]  | "drone on" 


    1: to speak for a long time in a dull voice without saying anything interesting

    [Noun]  | "drone" 


    1: a lazy person;


      * e.g., " ... those drones just lie around while we do all the work "





    2: a person who does very hard or dull work;


      * e.g., " ... after lunch my fellow drones and I shuffle back to our cubicles "



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    [Noun]  | "drone" 


    1: a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion;


      * e.g., " ... heard the drone of an airplane overhead "



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    [Verb]  | "drone" 


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


      * e.g., " ... the sound of droning bees all around us "



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    2: to spend time doing nothing;


      * e.g., " ... instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents "



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     [ "drone" ]

    1: pakistan's national bird, they are often found in areas near to Afghanistan border. they migrate from US!

      * e.g.,  ... SON- Look DAD, what kind of bird is that? 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: drone(n): A drone is someone who follows an ideology or some other form of idealization blindlessly and uncritically.

      * e.g.,  ... You're all a bunch of music industry drones. 


     [ "drone" ]

    2: The nouns original meaning is used in context with "social" insects, which are ordered into a hive structure. In an insect hive, drones are the workers - the ones gathering food, building the hive - in short: maintaining the hive, controlled by the queen, if not by some common instinctual fellowship and hierarchal order.

      * e.g.,  ... Where is that drone-brother of yours? Still hanging around the arcade? 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: a mindless worker/sales person at stores. Generally refers to an employee of a large company, ideally a grocery store.

      * e.g.,  ... "hey bob, where is the ketchup?" 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: Individual who appears to lack concern, emotion, or enthusiasm.

      * e.g.,  ... I went to Wal-Mart one day to pick up some stuff, and all the sudden I saw a man slip and fall on spilled antifreeze in the automotive area. Other shoppers walked by and resumed their shopping as if nothing happened. Man, what a bunch of drones. (fiction) 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: A little robot not controlled by man. With several functions, like repairing, shooting and scouting. The drones can have certain prefixes like repair drone and sentry drone.

      * e.g.,  ...  Thanks to the repair drone circling my humvee it got repaired and was ready to go. 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: Illegal in the majority of the EU drone is a potent synthetic drug currently being sold as "bath salts" or "plant food" legally across most U.S. states. Drone is short for Mephedrone, also known as 4-methylmethcathinone (4-MMC), or 4-methylephedrone. It is a chemical analogue of cathinone found in the khat plant of eastern Africa.

      * e.g.,  ... I just scored a gram of 'drone 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: drone is a sub type of doom music its usualy long records with one note being played again and again very slowly about 1 bpm which builds into a wall of sound

      * e.g.,  ... a good drone band is sunn ((0)) 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: A person with a generic sense of humour and mainstream sensibilities, esp. those who mock people for having superior taste.

      * e.g.,  ... "Did you watch X Factor last night? It was so funny." 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: The lesbian member of a group of lesbians whose sole purpose is to service the queen lesbian of the group.

      * e.g.,  ... Don't pay her any attention, she's just a drone. 

     [ "drone" ]

    1: people who buy/do things to "fit in" but are actually annoying, and not cool in the first place

      * e.g.,  ... that slut is a drone, did you see her "sex tape"? 

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