drone
part of speech
noun (drone, drones); verb (drone, drones, droned, droning)
meaning for a pupil
1) A drone is a small aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground or by a computer. tree →
2) A drone is a male bee that does no work. tree →
3) A drone is a low, steady humming sound. tree →
4) To drone on is to talk for a long time in a dull, boring voice. tree →
5) A lazy person who does no work and lives off others. tree →
sense in the lessons
In technology lessons drones take photos and videos, deliver parcels and help search for people. In safety: drones must not fly near airports or over crowds. In science a bee colony has a queen, workers and drones. In stories a voice drones on and a plane drones overhead. Phrases: fly a drone, drone camera, drone on, the drone of traffic.
examples
- He flies a drone in the park. tree →
- The drone took a photo of our school from above. tree →
- Drones must stay away from airports. tree →
- A drone is a male bee. tree →
- We heard the drone of a plane far away. tree →
- The speaker droned on for an hour. tree →
- Drones can help find lost hikers. tree →
- They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that's a good beginning for drones. tree →
note
Countable noun. Regular verb (droned). Bee family: one queen lays eggs, workers (female) collect food, drones (male) do not sting or work. Drone rules differ by country; many need registration.
In the corpora
- A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones.
- Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow.
- Kites and drones should be flown far from overhead power lines.
- Example: a girl in Texas sees a toy drone zooming through a forest on TV.
- NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.