Drone  

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

   Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.

Etymology 1

From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”).

Etymology 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”).

Nature

• Drone (bee)
• Male wasp
• Male ant

Vehicles

• Unmanned vehicles
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles

Music

• Drone (music), a continuous note or chord, or the part of various musical instruments that produces such a sound
• Drone music, a musical style