drone

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɹəʊn/    美 /dɹoʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. The drug mephedrone. UK,slang,uncountable
  3. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
    — He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.
  4. One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. archaic
    — 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. […]
  5. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
  6. A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds. uncountable
  7. One who performs menial or tedious work.
  8. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.
    — aerial drones
  9. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
    — The monotonous drone of the wheel.
  10. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.; An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an uncrewed/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
    — Near-synonyms: UAV, UAS, OPV, RPV, FPV
  11. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.; Any remotely operated or autonomous underwater vehicle, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
    — Near-synonyms: ROV, ROUV, UUV, AUV
  12. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.; Any watercraft on the water's surface that is remotely operated or autonomous.
    — Near-synonyms: USV (remotely operated), ASV (autonomous)
  13. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.; Any UGV (uncrewed ground vehicle).
  14. A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members. Uganda
    — The van is locally referred to as "a drone" because it is compact and stable under extreme conditions. It is also very fast. Technically though, it is a Toyota Hiace, which is usually used for commercial purposes.
  15. One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character. derogatory,slang
    — The billionaire-friendly media drones and frenzied multiculturalist politicians are imposing "vibrant" third world social violence onto Australians, and Australians don't get to vote against this "bipartisan" conspiracy. The hyperactive globalist politicians and media drones might find themselves facing firing squads if they don't change their corrupt ways.
  16. In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask.
动词 v.
  1. To kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone. colloquial,transitive
    — "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."
  2. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
  3. To speak in a monotone.

词形变化

drones plural drones present,singular,third-person droning participle,present droned participle,past droned past drones present,singular,third-person droning participle,present droned participle,past droned past drones plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tǎrtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.
词源 2
From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“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”).
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