Monotone vs. Drone — What's the Difference?

A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.

A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.

A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.

An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.

A chant in a single tone.

A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge

Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.

A remotely controlled or autonomous aircraft with no pilot on board. Also called unmanned aircraft system.

Characterized by or uttered in a monotone

A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.

Of or having a single color

Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.

Also mon·o·ton·ic (mŏn′ə-tŏnĭk) Mathematics Designating sequences, the successive members of which either consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative value. Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.

A long sustained tone.

(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.

(mathematics) Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.

To make a continuous low dull humming sound

A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.

To speak in a monotonous tone

A piece of writing in one strain throughout.

To pass or act in a monotonous way.

(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

To utter in a monotonous low tone

A single unvaried tone or sound.

A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.

An unchanging intonation

One who performs menial or tedious work.

A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

(aviation) A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

(Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;

A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.

A low-pitched hum or buzz.

(musical instrument) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.

A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.

To speak in a monotone way.

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

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.

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

To love in idleness; to do nothing.

Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

An unchanging intonation

Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

An aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

Make a monotonous low dull sound;

Talk in a monotonous voice