Old English dran, dræn "male honeybee," from Proto-Germanic *dran- (source also of Middle Dutch drane; Old High German treno; German Drohne, which is from Middle Low German drone), probably [..]

Dull, monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.

male bee in a hive, which mates with queen bees from different hives to produce offspring.

unmanned aircraft that can be guided remotely.

Another name for pedal point.

Male honey bee.

make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on" stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the [..]

There are two types of drones to be aware of, the first and most common today are remotely control unmanned aircraft or watercraft. The second are target drones. Prior to the 1960s these were towed by an aircraft of ship and used for target practice by gunners. The latter would be more familiar to military personnel from World War II to the Vietnam [..]

the name given to male bees. Read more on: Drone

Amazon says is plans to deliver goods by drone. I would like to look at how that might work and some of the advantages and disadvantages and some of the problems that need to be overcome. How It Might [..]

  A drone is a continuous pitch, held for an extended time beneath the melody to serve as an aural reference point. In early music, drones generally were not notated in manuscripts, so performers shou [..]

(n) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen(n) an unchanging intonation(n) someone who takes more time than necessary; someon [..]

An exciting new field in applied ethics that seeks to determine how many deaths society will find acceptable in exchange for a cool new way of delivering toiletries by air.

The largest tube of a bagpipe; so called because it sounds only one continuous note. (German, drohne, verb, drohnen, to groan or drone.)

A sustained or repeated pitch that tends to sound continuously in the background. Drone tones are typically lower in pitch than other pitches used in the music. The choice of a drone pitch is thought to be influenced by consonance and dissonance. See also finalis, most common pitch, tonic, dissonance.

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. Minimali [..]

A sustained tone (a kind of permanent pedal point) over which a melody unfolds.

   A sustained tone over or under which other music is played. For example. a bagpiper usually plays a continuous drone over which the melody is played.

A drone is a low note that is held continuously throughout a piece of music.

Long, sustained tones, usually in a low register.

A steady tone. Typically a drone provides the background or underpinning for another instrument to solo over, creating a solo-drone song form. The drone could be provided by another Native American fl [..]

See UAV.

This describes any unmanned aerial vehicle.

The male honey bee. Dulosis.

, in social Apoidea (Hymenoptera), the bee, especially a honey bee or bumble bee, that develops from unfertilized eggs (T-B; Wilson).

a male bee. His only job is to mate with the queen.

The common name for a UAV.

A pilotless aircraft, usually following a predetermined or programmed set of maneuvers. See also RPV.

A male bee who mates with the queen but does no work within the bee colony.

A small aircraft without a human pilot on board used for field research, such as by attaching cameras that are able to take aerial photographs.