| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Drone.[Websters]
2. To be bummed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have murmured, growled, buzzed or grunted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have rumbled or purred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have boomed, roared, thundered, whirred or hummed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have grumbled, snarled or moaned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have idled or truanted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have tinkled or sounded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have tolled or clanged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have clattered or dined.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb drone.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (drone) | 1. Make a monotonous low dull sound.[Wordnet]. 2. Talk in a monotonous voice.[Wordnet]. 3. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.[Websters]. 4. To love in idleness; to do nothing.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: droning, droned, drones, droner, droners, droningly and dronedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DRONED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
Specialty Definition: drone
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Drone n. Ignorant sales or customer service personnel in computer or electronics superstores. Characterized by a lack of even superficial knowledge about the products they sell, yet possessed of the conviction that they are more competent than their hacker customers. Usage: "That video board probably sucks, it was recommended by a drone at Fry's" In the year 2000, their natural habitats include Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, and CompUSA. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The male of the honey bee. It is smaller than the queen bee, but larger than the working bee. The drones make no honey, but after living a few weeks, they are killed or driven from the hive. Hence,. | 2: [Noun] An idler; a sluggard; one who earns nothing by industry.. | 3: [Noun] A humming or low sound, or the instrument of humming.. | 4: [Noun] The largest tube of the bag-pipe, which emits a continued deep note.. | 5: [Verb] To live in idleness; as a droning king.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | A remotely controlled aircraft. (references) | ||
| Library Science | A single tone sounded continuously along with other melodic tones. On the fiddle, the term is sometimes used to refer to the practice of sounding open strings simultaneously with adjacent strings on which the melody is being played. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: A drone. An idle person who lives on the means of another, as drones on the honey collected by bees; a sluggard. (Anglo-Saxon dræn, a male bee.) 2: Drone (l syl.). The largest tube of a bagpipe; so called because it sounds only one continuous note. (German, drohne, verb, drohnen, to groan or drone.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | 1: (DOD) A land, sea, or air vehicle that is remotely or automatically controlled. See also remotely piloted vehicle; unmanned aerial vehicle. (references) | 2: An unmanned vehicle which conducts its mission without guidance from an external source. See also remotely piloted vehicle. (references) | 3: Pilotless F6F "Hellcat" (references) |
| Physics | The low frequency noise of an engine. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: Aerodyne usually of aero plane type whose pilot does not fly with it but controls it from another aircraft or from a station on the surface. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Pilotless target aircraft, today often an RPV (remotely piloted vehicle). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A low-pitched hum or buzz. 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone. (references) | 2: [Noun] A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen. (references) | 3: [Noun] An unmanned aircraft. (references) | 4: [Noun] One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe. (references) | 5: [Verb] To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. (references) | 6: [Verb] To speak in a monotone way. (references) |
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Common Expressions: drone
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Children of the Drone | Children of the Drone are an Exeter, U.K.-based improvisational music collective formed in 2001. Originally formed by Simon Egan, Keith Hunter and Matthew Watkins, the collective now consists of about twenty players, with a core group of about a dozen. (references) | ||
| Deep Drone | The Deep Drone is a submersible remotely operated vehicle designed for mid-water salvage for the United States Navy. One vehicle is based in Charleston, South Carolina, under the command of The U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV). The vehicle is capable of operating at a depth up to 8000 feet as reflected in its full name: "The Deep Drone 8000". The vehicle has a target locating sonar and two tool manipulators capable of working with tools and attaching rigging. (references) | ||
| Detective Drone | Detective Edward Drone was a reoccurring character in many late Victorian era British crime novels. He was characterised by his "lack of manners and general decency" as one anonymous critic put it, and his "boorishness which bordered on social illiteracy". (references) | ||
| Diagnostic Drone | The Diagnostic Drone is a character from the Beast Machines TV series. He is a minor character in the series, serving as an advisor to Megatron. During his brief role in the series, he attempts several times to eradicate Megatron's organic side, with little success. He is later reprogrammed by Tankorr, who uses him to obtain the Key to Vector Sigma and in his machinations against Megatron. The Drone is later destroyed by Megatron, who was aware of its activities the entire time. A second drone makes one appearance in season 2, to tell Megatron that his Optimal body is ready for him. (references) | ||
| Drone (bee) | Drones are male honeybees. They are produced when the queen bee lays unfertilized eggs. This type of reproduction is called parthenogenesis and it results in the queen and drones sharing the same genes. Drones are haploid with 16 chromosomes. (references) | ||
| Drone (music) | However, drones are less often used in common practice classical music because the longer and more central a drone the less functional it is and because equal temperament causes slight mistunings which become more apparent over a drone, especially when also sustained. On the other hand, drones may be purposely dissonant, as often in the music of Phill Niblock. The best known drone piece in the concert repertory is the Prelude to Wagner's Rheingold (1854) wherein the bass instruments sustain an Eb throughout the entire movement (Erickson 1975, p.94). Later drone pieces include Loren Rush's Hard Music (1970), Folke Rabe's Was?? (1968), and Robert Erickson's Down at Piraeus. (references) | ||
| Drone bee | The male of the honeybee; a drone. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Drone fly | A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Drone metal | Drone metal, also known as drone doom, is a subgenre of doom metal, pioneered by the band Earth, that takes the heaviness and slowness of its progenitor to a new extreme. The music is minimalist, consisting mainly of distorted down tuned guitars and bass with rare clear (melodic) themes, usually with lots of reverb applied to the final mix. (references) | ||
| Drone on | Talk in a monotonous voice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Drone pipe | A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Drone Weapon | In the television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis a drone weapon is a device built by the Ancients, similar to a guided missile. At least eight drones can be found on the Ancients' puddle jumpers and also the control chairs in the Antarctic outpost and in Atlantis which can contain thousands of the drones. These devices are incredibly powerful, as two drones are capable of destroying a Goa'uld mothership, though they must hit a precise spot on the hull. (references) | ||
| Drone zither | Drone zither (in Slovenian bordunske citre, pl.) is an authentic Slovenian type of zither. In different dialects, it is also known as švrkovnce, pleče, špile, drskalce, drsovnca and by other names. It is played by plucking only the melodic strings, while the bass ones freely resonate as drone. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: drone
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Target drone | Transportation | Pilotless target aircraft, today often an RPV (remotely piloted vehicle). Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: drone | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Drone Weapon | 106 | Children of the Drone | 3 | |
| Drone doom | 32 | Deep Drone | 5 | |
| Drone music | 28 | Detective Drone | 5 | |
| Drone | 22 | Diagnostic Drone | 6 | |
| Drone (bee) | 17 | Drone | 22 | |
| Drone (Star Trek: Voyager) | 16 | Drone (bee) | 17 | |
| List of drone artists | 8 | Drone (music) | 8 | |
| Drone (music) | 8 | Drone (Star Trek: Voyager) | 16 | |
| Diagnostic Drone | 6 | Drone doom | 32 | |
| Drone Tactics | 6 | Drone music | 28 | |
| Deep Drone | 5 | Drone Records | 3 | |
| Detective Drone | 5 | Drone Tactics | 6 | |
| Drone zither | 4 | Drone Weapon | 106 | |
| Children of the Drone | 3 | Drone zither | 4 | |
| Drone Records | 3 | List of drone artists | 8 | |
| The Drone Virus | 3 | The Drone Virus | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
