drone
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
Types & categories
- bee hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make a monotonous low dull sound
The harmonium was droning on
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
- monotone derivation
Sense 3 noun
an unchanging intonation
Types & categories
- intonation hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
talk in a monotonous voice
Types & categories
- mouth hypernym
Related & opposite
- monotone derivation
Sense 5 noun
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 6 noun
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
Types & categories
- heavier-than-air craft hypernym
Sense 7 noun
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
Types & categories
- pipe hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bagpipe part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bee |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drone on |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drone |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | intonation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | monotone |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | mouth |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lag |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dally |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dawdle |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | trail |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | shack |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | poky |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | idler |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | loiterer |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | slowpoke |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | putterer |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | straggler |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | heavier-than-air craft |
| 7 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bagpipe |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | pipe |