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Drone
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
"All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive."
- 2 A low-pitched hum or buzz.
"He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone."
- 3 The drug mephedrone. UK, slang, uncountable
- 4 stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen wordnet
- 5 One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. archaic
"SHYLOCK: / The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]"
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- 6 One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- 7 a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone wordnet
- 8 One who performs menial or tedious work.
- 9 A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds. uncountable
- 10 an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control wordnet
- 11 A remotely operated vehicle.; An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
"Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight."
- 12 A humming or deep murmuring sound.
"The monotonous drone of the wheel."
- 13 an unchanging intonation wordnet
- 14 A remotely operated vehicle.; Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
"The Apex boat is a small radio-controlled craft which tows, at an angle, two Drone boats. The latter are small craft filled with explosives to be detonated from the control radio of the Apex boat."
- 15 someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind wordnet
- 16 A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members. Uganda
"The van is locally referred to as "a drone" because it is compact and stable under extreme conditions. It is also very fast. Technically though, it is a Toyota Hiace, which is usually used for commercial purposes."
- 17 One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character. derogatory, slang
"The billionaire-friendly media drones and frenzied multiculturalist politicians are imposing "vibrant" third world social violence onto Australians, and Australians don't get to vote against this "bipartisan" conspiracy. The hyperactive globalist politicians and media drones might find themselves facing firing squads if they don't change their corrupt ways."
- 18 In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask.
- 1 To kill or destroy with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. colloquial, transitive
""I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously.""
- 2 To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
- 3 talk in a monotonous voice wordnet
- 4 To speak in a monotone.
- 5 make a monotonous low dull sound wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognate with Danish drone (“drone”), Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Low German drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognate with Danish drone (“drone”), Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Low German drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Drohne, a city in Westphalia. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Drane. * As an Irish surname, spelling variant of Drohan; as a Scottish Gaelic surname, spelling variant of Dron in Perthshire.
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