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)
A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen.
* Dryden
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 117:
- 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.
* Burton
- By living as a drone , to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
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= citation
, 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= Ed Pilkington
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= ‘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 drone
See also
* UAV
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
(dron)
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
To speak in a monotone way.
Noun
( en noun)
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
* 1908 ,
- He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone .
(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
- The monotonous drone of the wheel.
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harp Noun
( en noun)
A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
(label) A harmonica.
(label) A grain sieve.
Derived terms
* harpist
See also
* lyre
Verb
( en verb)
To repeatedly mention a subject.
- (US)
- (UK)
(label) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
(label) To play (a tune) on the harp.
(label) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
- — Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* about
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