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Drones

/dɹəʊnz/

A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.

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noun

1
A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
2
Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
3
One who performs menial or tedious work.
4
A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
"One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole."

noun

1
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
2
One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
3
A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
4
A humming or deep murmuring sound.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Drones"

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Word	Definition
dawdlernoun	A person who dawdles or idles.
drone onverb	(intransitive) to talk in a boring manner for a long time.
laggardnoun	One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.
monotonenoun	A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
bourdonnoun	A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
drone pipenoun	a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
pilotless aircraftnoun	an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
radio-controlled aircraft	A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is radio controlled by an operator on the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter.
aircraftnoun	A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
bumblebeesnoun	Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
jetsnoun	An NFL franchise located in New York City.
planesnoun	a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae that currently comprises three extant species: Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758), Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914, and Planes major (=cyaneus) (MacLeay, 1838).
stingless	Having no sting.
uavnoun	(aviation) Initialism of unmanned aerial vehicle or uncrewed aerial vehicle: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, that is capable of controlled, sustained, level flight.
coptersnoun	(informal) A helicopter.
choppersnoun	(informal, plural only) Teeth.
helicoptersnoun	an Australian new wave, ska-influenced pop band which formed in Perth in August 1980.
pilotlessnoun	Not having a pilot.
awacsnoun	An aircraft that contains an AWACS system; especially, the Boeing E-3 Sentry.
satellitesnoun	"Satellites" is the first single by Petra Marklund (performing as September) from her second album In Orbit, and is the first single released under her contract with Catchy Tunes.