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Meaning of drone

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  drone
      n 1: stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially
           honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
      2: an unchanging intonation [syn: {monotone}, {drone},
         {droning}]
      3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags
         behind [syn: {dawdler}, {drone}, {laggard}, {lagger},
         {trailer}, {poke}]
      4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote
         control [syn: {drone}, {pilotless aircraft}, {radio-
         controlled aircraft}]
      5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single
         continuous tone [syn: {drone}, {drone pipe}, {bourdon}]
      v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was
           droning on"
      2: talk in a monotonous voice [syn: {drone}, {drone on}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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