[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drone \drone\ dr=on, v. i. imp.  p. p. droned; p. pr. 
   vb. n. droning. cf. for sense 1 d. dreunen, g.
   dr"ohnen, icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, sw.
   dr"ona to bellow, drone, dan. dr"one, goth. drunjus
   sound, gr. ? dirge, ? to cry aloud, skr. dhran to sound. cf.
   drone, n.
   1. to utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or
      murmuring sound.
      1913 webster

            where the beetle wheels his droning flight. --t.
                                                  gray.
      1913 webster

   2. to love in idleness; to do nothing. "race of droning
      kings." --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
droned droning drone 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drone \drone\, n. oe. drane a dronebee, as. dr=an; akin to
   os. dr=an, ohg. treno, g. drohne, dan. drone, cf. gr. ? a
   kind of wasp, dial. gr. ? drone. prob. named fr. the droning
   sound. see drone, v. i.
   1. zool. the male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. it gathers
      no honey. see honeybee.
      1913 webster

            all with united force combine to drive
            the lazy drones from the laborious hive. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. one who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle
      fellow; a sluggard.
      1913 webster

            by living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and
            unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
                                                  -- burton.
      1913 webster

   3. 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.
          1913 webster

   4. a humming or deep murmuring sound.
      1913 webster

            the monotonous drone of the wheel.    --longfellow.
      1913 webster

   5. mus. a monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
      1913 webster
see also:
drone honeybee 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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, droning
     3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags
        behind syn: dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer
     4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote
        control syn: pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled
        aircraft
     5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single
        continuous tone syn: drone pipe, bourdon
     v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "the harmonium was droning
          on"
     2: talk in a monotonous voice syn: drone on
see also:
monotone droning dawdler laggard lagger trailer 
pilotless aircraft radio-controlled aircraft drone pipe bourdon drone on 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

237 moby thesaurus words for "drone":
   indian file, accompaniment, alliteration, alto, array,
   articulation, assonance, bagpipe, bagpipes, bank, baritone, bass,
   basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, bee, beggar, birr, blubber,
   bombilate, bombinate, boom, bourdon, bum, bumble, bumblebee,
   bummer, burden, burr, buzz, cadger, canto, cantus,
   cantus figuratus, cantus planus, catena, catenation, chain,
   chain reaction, chaining, chanter, chest voice, chime,
   clockwork regularity, coloratura, concatenation, connection,
   consecution, constancy, continue the same, continuo, continuum,
   contralto, cornemuse, coupon clippers, course, cycle, daily round,
   dawdle, dawdler, descant, descent, dingdong, doodlesack,
   drag along, drag on, drone bass, droning, endless belt,
   endless round, even pace, even tenor, falsetto, figured bass, file,
   filiation, foot-dragger, freeloader, gabble, gamut, gibber,
   gibbering, goldbrick, goof-off, gradation, ground bass, harping,
   head voice, honeybee, hornet, hum, humdrum, idle rich,
   invariability, jabber, jibber, jingle, jingle-jangle, laggard,
   lallygag, laze, leisure class, lie-abed, line, lineage, lingerer,
   loaf, loiter, loiterer, loll, lounge, lounge lizard,
   lumpen proletariat, maunder, maundering, mendicant, monologue,
   monotone, monotonousness, monotony, moocher, mouth, mouthing,
   mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuring, musette, mutter, muttering,
   near rhyme, nexus, nonworker, orderliness, panhandler, parasite,
   part, pendulum, periodicity, persist, pipes, pitter-patter,
   plain chant, plain song, plenum, plodder, powder train, prevail,
   prick song, procrastinator, progression, purr, queen, queen bee,
   queue, range, rank, recurrence, regularity, rentiers,
   repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation,
   rhyme, rotation, round, routine, row, run, run through, sameliness,
   sameness, scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong,
   slant rhyme, sleepyhead, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke,
   slug, sluggard, smoothness, snail, sob, soprano, sordellina,
   speak incoherently, spectrum, spiv, splutter, sponger, sputter,
   stale repetition, stick-in-the-mud, string, strum, succession,
   susurrate, susurration, swath, tedium, tenor, the unemployable,
   the unemployed, thorough bass, thread, thrum, tier, tortoise,
   train, treadmill, treble, trot, undersong, undeviation,
   undifferentiation, union pipes, unnecessary repetition,
   unvariation, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice, voice part,
   wasp, whir, whisper, whispering, whiz, windrow, worker,
   yellow jacket

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

drone n. ignorant sales or customer service personnel in computer or
   electronics superstores. characterized by a lack of even superficial
   knowledge about the products they sell, yet possessed of the conviction
   that they are more competent than their hacker customers. usage: "that
   video board probably sucks, it was recommended by a drone at fry's" in
   the year 2000, their natural habitats include fry's electronics, best
   buy, and compusa.

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