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In some senses, drone is marked as archaic, slang, colloquial, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
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.
One who performs menial or tedious work.
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.
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
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
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
To speak in a monotone.