Synonymer

Uttal

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Översättning
Substantiv
1.insansız uçak {m}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen.
  2. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
  3. (now rare) Someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler.
  4. One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
  5. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
  6. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
  7. A genre of music similar to that of noise.
  8. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Verb

  1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
  2. To speak in a monotone way.

Exempel

  • All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
  • 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.
  • By living as a drone, to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Strikes from drones take many innocent lives.
  • He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.
  • The monotonous drone of the wheel.
  • the continuous drone of the insects.
  • the continuous drone of the engine.
  • He just droned on an on, without really saying anything.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipdroned
Imperfektdroned
Presensparticipdroning
Pluraldrones
Tredje person singular indicativ presensdrones