Drone is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRONE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a monotonous humming sound
• make a continuous low humming sound
• speak tediously in a dull monotonous tone
• move with a continuous humming sound
• The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
• One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
• 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.
• A humming or deep murmuring sound.
• A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
• make a monotonous low dull sound
• talk in a monotonous voice
NOUN:
• a monotonous speech
• a continuous musical note of low pitch
• a musical instrument, or part of one, sounding a continuous note of low pitch, in particular (also drone pipe) a pipe in a bagpipe or (also drone string) a string in an instrument such as a hurdy-gurdy or a sitar.
• a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
• a person who does no useful work and lives off others
• a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or missile.
• To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
• To love in idleness; to do nothing.
• stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
• an unchanging intonation
• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
• an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
• a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
• male bee
• a continuous low humming sound
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a continuous low sound

Words related to DRONE

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Words that contain DRONE

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How to use DRONE in a sentence

• She heard a sound at the other side of a bend in the hill, a low drone, like somebody mumbling a hymn.
• The buzzing, high-pitched drone of its motor floated down.
• But in his sudden surprise he had not time to think of assuming either the nasal drone or the scriptural words peculiar to these black-coated gentry.
• Still they promise to be a help, and they are lively and attractive features of our present scene as they drone along over the floe.
• At intervals the drone of an insect bored the air and trailed slowly to silence again.
• Gradually the drone of the Huns, high up in the air, becomes audible.
• Then they walked to a little distance, and, seating themselves on the ground, began to talk together, and after a while to drone some strange chant in unison.
• Instantly the cabin was filled with a clicking so loud as to make an almost continuous drone of sound.
• The drone of the gas shells passing overhead, and the knowledge of this device on the part of the British artillery, was very reassuring to the waiting troops.
• Courtland felt an idler and drone among them that he did not yet know what he was to do.
• In some instances it takes the shape of a pious whine, in others of a drone.
• This may indicate a drone or a queen bee that takes no active part in the work of gathering honey or making comb.
• Twelve long years I have borne this unhappy condition of things, yet I have not been a drone in the hive of busy humanity.
• It takes twenty-one days for a Worker to become fully grown and twenty-five for a Drone.
• In the sweet sage is the drone of bees, like the hum of a far city.
• They strike a richer accord, while the others drone on a single note.
• There are passages where we almost hear the drone of a dowager in the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
• His voice is the echo of a drone, drone-begotten and drone-sustained.
• So the hours at first passed quietly with nothing to disturb him but the monotonous drone and click of the machinery.
• He hoped that he might soon cease to be a drone, and end by being of some real use in the world.
• The calm night outside was breathlessly still, except for the drone of insects at the screens, attracted by the glow of the library lamp.

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