| drone Jun 20th 2013, 23:00 | | | | Line 19: | Line 19: | | | #* {{quote-magazine|title=An internet of airborne things|date=2012-12-01|volume=405|issue=8813|page=3 (Technology Quarterly)|magazine=[[w:The Economist|The Economist]]|url=http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-networking-enthusiasts-dream-building-drone-powered-internet-carry-objects | | #* {{quote-magazine|title=An internet of airborne things|date=2012-12-01|volume=405|issue=8813|page=3 (Technology Quarterly)|magazine=[[w:The Economist|The Economist]]|url=http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-networking-enthusiasts-dream-building-drone-powered-internet-carry-objects | | | |passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via '''drone'''.}} | | |passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via '''drone'''.}} | | | + | #*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-07|author=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/edpilkington Ed Pilkington] | | | + | |volume=188|issue=26|page=6|magazine={{w|The Guardian Weekly}} | | | + | |title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/29/killer-robots-ban-un-warning ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told] | | | + | |passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of '''drones'''. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}} | | | ''Connotation'' Definition 3: Prior to c.2010, drone was used to refer to apply to military applications only. With the unveiling of the predator in 2003, drone has an ominous, dreadful connotation. The language has changed to use drone to non-military applications as well. June 19, 2013 the FBI admitted to using [non-weaponized] drones for surveillance. | | ''Connotation'' Definition 3: Prior to c.2010, drone was used to refer to apply to military applications only. With the unveiling of the predator in 2003, drone has an ominous, dreadful connotation. The language has changed to use drone to non-military applications as well. June 19, 2013 the FBI admitted to using [non-weaponized] drones for surveillance. | | | | | |
Latest revision as of 23:00, 20 June 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia Pronunciation[edit] Etymology 1[edit] From Middle English drone, from Old English drān, drǣn ("male bee, drone"), from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô ("an insect, drone"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- ("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"). drone (plural drones) - A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen (Wikipedia).
- (now rare) Someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 117:
- he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve.
- A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, Wikipedia).
- 2012 December 1, "An internet of airborne things", The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, "'Killer robots' should be banned in advance, UN told", The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
- In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
Connotation Definition 3: Prior to c.2010, drone was used to refer to apply to military applications only. With the unveiling of the predator in 2003, drone has an ominous, dreadful connotation. The language has changed to use drone to non-military applications as well. June 19, 2013 the FBI admitted to using [non-weaponized] drones for surveillance. Translations[edit] - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked See also[edit] Etymology 2[edit] From Middle English drounen ("to roar, bellow"), ultimately perhaps from Proto-Germanic *drunjanan ("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"). drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned) - To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
- To speak in a monotone way.
drone (plural drones) - A low-pitched hum or buzz.
- One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
- One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- A genre of music similar to that of noise.
Translations[edit] produce a low-pitched hum or buzz fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe Anagrams[edit]
Etymology 1[edit] From Middle Dutch drone ("bee drone"). Doublette with drone ("unmanned aircraft"), which was borrowed from English. drone m (plural dronen, diminutive droontje) - (archaic) a male bee or wasp; a drone
Synonyms[edit] Etymology 2[edit] From English drone ("aircraft drone"). Doublette with drone ("male bee"), which descended from Middle Dutch. drone m (plural drones, diminutive droontje) - a remotely controlled aircraft; a drone
Italian[edit] drone m (invariable) - drone (unmanned aircraft)
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