Noun

• S: (n) drone (drone%1:05:00::) (stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen)
• S: (n) monotone (monotone%1:10:00::), drone (drone%1:10:00::), droning (droning%1:10:00::) (an unchanging intonation)
• S: (n) dawdler (dawdler%1:18:00::), drone (drone%1:18:00::), laggard (laggard%1:18:00::), lagger (lagger%1:18:00::), trailer (trailer%1:18:00::), poke (poke%1:18:00::) (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) dawdle (dawdle%2:38:04::) [Related to: dawdler] (waste time) "Get busy--don't dally!"
• W: (v) dawdle (dawdle%2:38:01::) [Related to: dawdler] (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• W: (v) dawdle (dawdle%2:38:00::) [Related to: dawdler] (take one's time; proceed slowly)
• W: (v) lag (lag%2:38:00::) [Related to: laggard, lagger] (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• W: (v) trail (trail%2:38:01::) [Related to: trailer] (move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly) "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"
• W: (v) trail (trail%2:38:02::) [Related to: trailer] (to lag or linger behind) "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
• W: (adj) poky (poky%3:00:00:slow:01) [Related to: poke] (wasting time)
• W: (adj) pokey (pokey%3:00:00:slow:01) [Related to: poke] (wasting time)
• S: (n) drone (drone%1:06:01::), pilotless aircraft (pilotless_aircraft%1:06:00::), radio-controlled aircraft (radio-controlled_aircraft%1:06:00::) (an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control)
• S: (n) drone (drone%1:06:00::), drone pipe (drone_pipe%1:06:00::), bourdon (bourdon%1:06:00::) (a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone)

Verb

• S: (v) drone (drone%2:39:00::) (make a monotonous low dull sound) "The harmonium was droning on"
• S: (v) drone (drone%2:32:00::), drone on (drone_on%2:32:00::) (talk in a monotonous voice)