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drone
UK /dɹəʊn/ US /dɹoʊn/
noun 10verb 3name 1
Collocations
7(noun.)
ADJ
faint | low | distant | constant, continuous, steady
VERB + DRONE
hear
PREP
with a ~
The old refrigerator in the kitchen hummed with an annoying drone all night long.
~ of
The constant drone of traffic outside my apartment made it difficult to concentrate on my work.
Definitions
noun
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
One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
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. […]
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.
3
One who performs menial or tedious work.
4
A remotely operated vehicle.
Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.
One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole.
5
A remotely operated vehicle.
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.
Firefish, a drone boat, is the second radio-controlled target used by the detachment. A 17-foot fiber glass craft, it weighs 1700 pounds and operates from the support ship by remote control at a range of up to five miles using tracking radar.
verb
1
To kill or destroy with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
"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."
“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”
verb
1
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
2
To speak in a monotone.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Wiktionary02
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 /
Wiktionary03
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.
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"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
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“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”
Wiktionary06
“Are we still droning people? Yeah,” he said. “Are we still running covert operations that weren’t authorized by Congress? Yeah. Is the government still spying on Americans without warrants? Without d
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