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drone English

Meaning drone meaning

What does drone mean?

drone

— noun stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen — noun (= monotone) an unchanging intonation — noun a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone — noun an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control — verb talk in a monotonous voice — verb make a monotonous low dull sound The harmonium was droning on — noun (= dawdler) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

Synonyms drone synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as drone?

drone English » English

hum buzz whirr roar whir purr murmur male bee sigh rumble make noise hiss whiz sponger radio-controlled aircraft pilotless aircraft parasite laggard drone pipe boom worker bee whizz trailer sluggard rustle poke nasalize mutter monotone loafer lagger idler honeybee droning drone on dawdler clatter bumblebee bourdon bee zoom worker whistle whisper vibrate unmanned aerial vehicle tingle stammer soldier sob

Topics drone topics

What do people use drone to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Insect
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal sounds
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Beekeeping

Conjugation drone conjugation

How do you conjugate drone?

drone · verb

Examples drone examples

How do I use drone in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A soporific drone sounds all around.

Movie subtitles

It's just that you always harp on your principles and drone on about how important everything is.
As one plane descended, another one just like it circled low over the field. The steady drone of its motor covered the landing and takeoff of the first plane, which then covered for the other.
Well, speaking as conservative candidate, I just drone on and on and on and on, never letting anyone else get a word in edgewise, until I start foaming at the mouth- and falling over backwards.
But don't let it drone. Give it rhythm.
Drone one,...drone two, drone three,...please report immediately to the main cargo area.
Drone number one.
Drone one,...drone two, drone three,...please report immediately to surgery.
Drone number two,...you'll perform the operation.
Drone number three, you'll handle the oxygen anaesthesia.
Drone number three.
Take a look. This is the micro-drone built by The Blessed.
A micro-drone?
If we submit that insectlike micro-drone as evidence, we should be able to tell the world about what The Blessed are up to.
I've put the micro-drone drop via the reentry capsules on hold as well.
Now, that insectoid micro-drone, what is it you're planning to do with it?
This idiot will drone on and on.
And this is a drone.
We used the image of Boxey you gave us to train the drone to respond to him.
Drone fight.
Ready to launch remote communications drone with complete ships records, including our present situation, sir.
Our drone can't escape as long as we're held in that tractor.
Launch surveillance drone.
Retreive the drone.
Retreive drone. Secure air sample in isolation.
The presumptuous fat drone!
Magnetic drone.
A drone! Bertie, you must marry!
And what's more, a fellow Drone. - Ha! Can't one just?
I should have transferred to a cargo drone - no people, no complaints.

News and current affairs

Eight years later, pinned down by a US Predator drone and French airstrikes, Qaddafi met his demise.
An estimated 3,000 drone killings have taken place, mostly in Pakistan, but also in Yemen and Somalia.
But Obama did promise greater transparency, which is essential to any sound debate over the rights and wrongs of drone attacks, and to democratic control over how the US is waging its war against terrorism.
Months later, while still in Somalia, he was killed in an American drone attack.
Amidst a crumbling economy, the country remains belligerent, using its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, to launch at least one successful drone flight above Israel and reportedly initiating recent cyber attacks.
Under President Barack Obama, the number of drone strikes carried out by the United States has soared, with more than 300 UAV attacks reported in Pakistan alone.
From a legal and human-rights point of view, the US drone program is even more alarming.
More than a decade after September 11, America's drone program does not fall into the first category of reactive self-defense.
So, Koh claims, drone attacks are part of a global war, fought both in declared war zones and non-war countries; therefore, they are legal.
The US drone program's legal basis is entirely unclear, however.
Given that most information about UAV activity is classified, it is impossible to know whether all drone targets directly participated in hostilities.
Drone operations are carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization whose activities are shrouded in secrecy.
Just as citizens worldwide are demanding increased economic and financial accountability, more pressure must be placed on the US to either prove that its drone activities are necessary and legal, or to stop them immediately.
Victims of UAV attacks, their families, and civil-society groups have begun to speak out against America's questionable drone campaign, and to pursue legal action.
As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.
The most authoritative study puts civilian deaths from drone strikes between June 2004 and mid-September 2012 at 474-881, including 176 children.
Prior to the debate, CNN Chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin asked Obama about his drone strategy.
TEL AVIV - A drone recently penetrated Israel's airspace from the Mediterranean.
The drone, shot down not far from Israel's nuclear facility in Dimona, fits with these two efforts.
Iran's war rhetoric and threat to inflict a deadly blow on Israel is served by dispatching a drone in the general direction of Dimona.
And, if the idea is to negotiate, the drone's flight was an excellent prelude to a demand that Iran's nuclear effort be dealt with as part of a larger effort to ban nuclear weapons throughout the Middle East.
There are two other disturbing aspects to the drone affair.
So was al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, who was deliberately killed by a drone strike two weeks later.
Yet, tellingly, the US has not carried out a single drone, air, or ground strike in or around Quetta.
Mehsud was reported killed by an airstrike from a US drone in August 2009.
Did US Drone Strikes Lose Yemen?
In Yemen, the US has been conducting drone strikes since at least 2002, with estimates of the total number of strikes ranging from 91 to 203.
The report also casts doubt on Obama's other claims, with evidence indicating that targets of drone strikes, though perhaps posing a threat to Yemen, may not have posed a direct threat to the US, and that their capture may have been possible.
In other words, Yemeni civilians have suffered and died from drone strikes that may not have been necessary.
More generally, the report provides a window into the experiences of Yemeni civilians directly affected by US drone strikes.

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