Drone vs Parasite - What's the difference?
drone | parasite |
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).
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, 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
(pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
(biology) an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
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(literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
As nouns the difference between drone and parasite
is that 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 while parasite is (pejorative) a person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.As a verb drone
is to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.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
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English
(wikipedia parasite)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite . This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
- ''Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites .
- Her golden tresses shade / The bosom’s stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.