I must admit I liked the DR.One (Drone) name but then I checked out the meanings and there are a few we maybe don't want to be too closely associated with. Except the bagpipes of course ;) Credits to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/drone drone 1 (drn)*n.**1. *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. *2. *An idle person who lives off others; a loafer. *3. *A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: "undervalued drones who labored in obscurity" (Caroline Bates). *4. *A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control. ------------------------------ [Middle English, from Old English drn.] ------------------------------ drone 2 (drn)*v.* *droned*, *dron·ing*, *drones* *v.**intr.**1. *To make a continuous low dull humming sound: "Somewhere an electric fan droned without end" (William Styron). *2. *To speak in a monotonous tone: The lecturer droned on for hours. *3. *To pass or act in a monotonous way. *v.**tr.*To utter in a monotonous low tone: "The mosquitoes droned their angry chant" (W. Somerset Maugham). *n.**1. *A continuous low humming or buzzing sound. *2. **Music**a. *Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone. *b. *A long sustained tone. *c. *Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch. ------------------------------ [From drone <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/drone> (*from the bee's humming sound*).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published byHoughton Mifflin Company <http://www.eref-trade.hmco.com/>. All rights reserved. ------------------------------ drone 1*Noun* *1*. a male honeybee *2*. a person who lives off the work of others [Old English *drān*] ------------------------------ drone 2*Verb* [*droning*, *droned*] *1*. to make a monotonous low dull sound *2*. *drone on* to talk in a monotonous tone without stopping *Noun* *1*. a monotonous low dull sound *2*. a single-reed pipe in a set of bagpipes [related to drone1] Collins Essential English Dictionary<http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/misc/HarperCollinsProducts.aspx?English> 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006 ------------------------------ drone (drn)A male bee, especially a honeybee whose only function is to fertilize the queen. Drones have no stingers, do no work, and do not produce honey. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company<http://www.eref-trade.hmco.com/>. All rights reserved >
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