Drone vs Droney - What's the difference?
drone | droney |
A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen.
* Dryden
Someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 117:
* Burton
A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone .}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
To speak in a monotone way.
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
* 1908 ,
(rft-sense) One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
A genre of music similar to that of noise.
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
* Longfellow
Characterized by droning
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=November 4, author=Franklin Soults, title=Sonic Youth, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney , doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series. }}
As a noun drone
is a male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen or drone can be a low-pitched hum or buzz.As a verb drone
is to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.As an adjective droney is
characterized by droning.drone
English
(wikipedia drone)Etymology 1
From (etyl) drone, from (etyl) . In sense "unmanned aircraft", due to early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.Flying Robots 101: Everything You Need To Know About Drones, Kelsey D. Atherton, March 7, 2013
Noun
(en noun)- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
- he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone , till he amend his conditions or starve.
- By living as a drone , to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
citation
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones . Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- Strikes from drones take many innocent lives.
Usage notes
In sense "unmanned aircraft", primarily used informally of military aircraft or consumer radio controlled quadcopters, without precise definition.Hyponyms
*Predator drone *Reaper droneSee also
* UAVEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(dron)Noun
(en noun)- He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone .
- The monotonous drone of the wheel.
References
Anagrams
* ----droney
English
Alternative forms
* dronyAdjective
(en adjective)citation