Synonyms of the word

drone

• n. A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
• n. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
• n. One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
• n. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
• v. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
• v. To speak in a monotone way.
• n. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
• n. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
• n. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
• n. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

bee

• n. A flying insect, of the superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies and for collecting pollen…
• n. A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
• n. A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
• n. (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
• v. Obsolete spelling of be.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of be; been.
• n. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
• n. (nautical, usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit,…

bourdon

• n. (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
• n. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
• n. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
• n. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
• n. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
• n. A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
• n. A pilgrim's staff.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

dawdler

• n. a person who dawdles or idles.

do-nothing

• n. A lazy person.

droning

• v. present participle of drone.
• n. A dull humming.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

idler

• n. One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
• n. One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
• n. A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt…
• adj. comparative form of idle: more idle.

intonation

• n. (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
• n. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
• n. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
• n. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm,…
• n. A thundering; thunder.

laggard

• adj. Lagging behind; taking more time than the others in a group.
• adj. (animal husbandry) Not growing as quickly as the rest of the flock or herd.
• n. One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.

lagger

• n. One who installs lagging.
• n. (video games, informal) A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
• n. (slang) A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.

layabout

• n. A lazy person.

loafer

• n. An idle person.
• n. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
• n. (Western US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

modulation

• n. The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.
• n. The variation and regulation of a population, physiological response, etc.

monotone

• adj. (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch.
• adj. (mathematics) of a function: having the property of either always decreasing or always increasing.
• n. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak in a monotone.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

pipe

• n. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
• n. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
• n. Meanings relating to a container.
• n. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
• n. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
• n. Meanings relating to computing.
• v. (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
• v. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
• v. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
• v. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
• v. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
• v. (transitive) To decorate with piping.
• v. (transitive) To dab away moisture from.
• v. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To see.

poke

• v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
• v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
• v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
• v. To put a poke on.
• v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
• v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
• n. A prod, jab, or punch.
• n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
• n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
• n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
• n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
• n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
• n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
• n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
• n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
• n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

trailer

• n. Someone who or something that trails.
• n. Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
• n. An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry…
• n. (US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
• n. (US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination, but typically is permanently left…
• n. (chiefly US, media) A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
• n. A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
• n. (computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise…
• n. (networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
• v. To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.