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drone
One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge
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A low-pitched hum or buzz

He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.

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A remotely controlled aircraft
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To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
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To speak in a monotone way
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One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe
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Someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler

he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve.

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A genre of music similar to that of noise
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{n} the male bee, sluggard, idler, hum in music
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{v} to live in idlness, to dream on
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An unmanned aircraft
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The male of bees, esp
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A continuous or repeated tone unchanging in pitch
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an unchanging intonation
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stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
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A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen
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Sustained sounding of one or several tones for harmonic support, a common feature in folk music [Harmony]
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To love in idleness; to do nothing
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a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
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A male bee
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{f} hum, buzz; speak in monotonous tone
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stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control talk in a monotonous voice make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on
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a single tone sounded continuously along with other melodic tones On the fiddle, the term is sometimes used to refer to the practice of sounding open strings simultaneously with adjacent strings on which the melody is being played
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pilotless aircraft (remotely controlled)
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A long, sustained note or notes, found in the music of many cultures Indian Classical music employs a drone, usually played on tamboura or harmonium Celtic music often has a drone, especially bagpipe tunes, and even Gregorian Chant tends to have a single sustained note, sung or implied Electronic music has often employed drones as well Minimalist pioneer Lamonte Young took great inspiration from the drone of step-down transformers on electric lines near his home And most modal music can be thought of as having a drone, perhaps unplayed, but there as a steady reference
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A humming or deep murmuring sound
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talk in a monotonous voice
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That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum
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disapproval If you say that someone drones, you mean that they keep talking about something in a boring way. Chambers' voice droned, maddening as an insect around his head Drone is also a noun. The minister's voice was a relentless drone. Drone on means the same as drone. Aunt Maimie's voice droned on Daniel just drones on about American policy. to make a continuous low dull sound
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make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"
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To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound
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note(s) sounding of fixed pitch continuing as a permanent bass
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{i} stingless male bee; UAV, unmanned small aircraft that is operated by remote control; monotone, low and continuous dull sound; buzzing noise; humming sound; (Music) any bagpipe without finger holes that produces a single tone, bourdon; idler, lazy person, dawdler
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It gathers no honey
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A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition
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(b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth
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an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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of the honeybee
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If something drones, it makes a low, continuous, dull noise. Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky. a virtually non-stop droning noise in the background. Drone is also a noun. the constant drone of the motorways. + droning dron·ing the droning of a plane far overhead
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An autonomous and automatic UAV carrying a mechanism to sustain stable flight on an uncorrected steady heading, and usually programmed to function as a target Its course is pre-programmed and cannot be altered during flight
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One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard
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A sustained musical sound, usually a bass note or notes Also, an instrument or part of an instrument that produces such sounds can be called a drone, such as the drones of a bagpipe
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Continuing notes of a fixed pitch, which sound as a permanent bass accompanying the melody Particularly associated with bagpipes and stringed instruments
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one or more notes that are sustained throughout a passage or an entire piece; used in Indian music (played by the tambura) to suggest a stable tonal area Similar to pedal point (see below) except that a drone usually lasts longer and creates stability rather than suspense
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