Drone vs Slug - What's the difference?
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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.
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* 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.
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(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
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
A bullet (projectile).
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
(physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
(television editing) A black screen.
(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
(web design) The last part of a (clean URL), the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
(obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
A ship that sails slowly.
* Samuel Pepys
To drink quickly; to gulp.
To down a shot.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
(obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
* Spenser
To load with a slug or slugs.
To make sluggish.
As nouns the difference between drone and slug
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 slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell.As verbs the difference between drone and slug
is that drone is to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz while slug is to drink quickly; to gulp.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.
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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
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
- (Francis Bacon)
- His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (a quantity of a drink) See alsoDerived terms
* black slug * sea slug * slug lineSee also
* (gastropod) snailVerb
(slugg)- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- to slug a gun
- (Milton)