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# drone

«drone» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#m1)

2) A drone is a male bee that does no work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#m2)

3) A drone is a low, steady humming sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#m3)

4) To drone on is to talk for a long time in a dull, boring voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#m4)

5) A lazy person who does no work and lives off others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x1)
- The drone took a photo of our school from above. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x2)
- Drones must stay away from airports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x3)
- A drone is a male bee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x4)
- We heard the drone of a plane far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x5)
- The speaker droned on for an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x6)
- Drones can help find lost hikers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x7)
- They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that's a good beginning for drones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/6/)
- [Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting/13/)
- [Kites and drones should be flown far from overhead power lines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/22/)
- [Example: a girl in Texas sees a toy drone zooming through a forest on TV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/9/)
- [NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.