Monotone vs. Drone
Monotoneadjective
(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
Monotoneadjective
(mathematics) Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.
Monotonenoun
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
Monotonenoun
A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
Monotoneverb
(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.
Monotonenoun
A single unvaried tone or sound.
Monotonenoun
The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
Monotonenoun
an unchanging intonation
Monotonenoun
a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
Monotoneadjective
of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Monotoneadjective
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;
Dronenoun
A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
Dronenoun
Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
Dronenoun
One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
Dronenoun
A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Dronenoun
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
Dronenoun
(musical instrument) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
Dronenoun
A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
Dronenoun
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Droneverb
To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
Droneverb
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
Droneverb
To speak in a monotone way.
Dronenoun
The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
Dronenoun
One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
Dronenoun
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.
Dronenoun
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Dronenoun
A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
Droneverb
To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
Droneverb
To love in idleness; to do nothing.
Dronenoun
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
Dronenoun
an unchanging intonation
Dronenoun
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Dronenoun
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
Dronenoun
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
Droneverb
make a monotonous low dull sound;
Droneverb
talk in a monotonous voice
