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Definition drone

Etymology 1

From Middle English drone, from Old English dr?n, dr?n (“male bee, drone”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?niz, *dr?nuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?r?n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognate with Dutch drone (“male bee or wasp”), Low German drone (“drone”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Danish drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).

In sense “unmanned aircraft”, due to early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths. The verb sense derives from this sense.

Noun

drone (plural drones)

1. A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
2. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
3. One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
4. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

1. To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

Etymology 2

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), ultimately perhaps from Proto-Germanic *drunjan? (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. To speak in a monotone way.

Noun

drone (plural drones)

1. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
3. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

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