Synonyms for drone
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1. dronenoun

   stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

   Synonyms:
   bourdon, trailer, poke, droning, dawdler, monotone, pilotless aircraft, drone pipe, lagger, laggard, radio-controlled aircraft

2. monotone, drone, droningnoun

   an unchanging intonation

   Synonyms:
   bourdon, trailer, poke, droning, dawdler, monotone, pilotless aircraft, drone pipe, lagger, laggard, radio-controlled aircraft

3. dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, pokenoun

   someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

   Synonyms:
   bourdon, monotone, punch, prevue, pigeon berry, house trailer, garget, scoke, sack, thrust, carrier bag, clout, slug, dawdler, lick, drone pipe, paper bag, pilotless aircraft, biff, lagger, thrusting, droning, jab, trailer, radio-controlled aircraft, laggard, poke, jabbing, poking, preview

4. drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraftnoun

   an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

   Synonyms:
   bourdon, trailer, poke, droning, dawdler, monotone, pilotless aircraft, drone pipe, lagger, laggard, radio-controlled aircraft

5. drone, drone pipe, bourdonverb

   a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

   Synonyms:
   bourdon, trailer, poke, droning, dawdler, monotone, pilotless aircraft, drone pipe, lagger, laggard, radio-controlled aircraft

6. droneverb

   make a monotonous low dull sound

   "The harmonium was droning on"

   Synonyms:
   drone on

7. drone, drone onverb

   talk in a monotonous voice

   Synonyms:
   drone on

Matched Categories

1. • Bee
   • Heavier-than-air Craft
   • Idler
   • Intonation
   • Sound

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1. dronenoun

   Synonyms:
   male honey-bee

2. dronenoun

   Synonyms:
   idler, sluggard, lounger, idle fellow, lazy fellow

3. dronenoun

   Synonyms:
   humming, humming noise

4. droneverb

   Synonyms:
   lounge, dawdle, waste time in trifles, live in idleness

5. droneverb

   Synonyms:
   make a dull, humming sound

6. droneverb

   Synonyms:
   read monotonously

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1. dronenoun

   Synonyms:
   sluggard, idler, lounger

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1. List of paraphrases for "drone":

   uav, drown, ucav, robot

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1. List of known nicknames for "Drone":

   Cassidy Phillips, DRONE

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1. Paul Fraidenburgh:

   Drone technology is far surpassing the flying skills of the people who have them, the fact that someone is receiving money makes me feel safer about their operation.

2. James Peaco III:

   When the detection equipment finds the drone and identifies the operator's location, we can very rapidly get that information to a ground intercept team who can then go make contact with that drone operator and essentially get them to stop flying that drone.

3. Jon Parker:

   Once drones are sighted over an airfield the authorities have no option but to suspend all flights. If they didn't and it led to a disaster then they would be slated, we've seen nothing on this scale before although Manchester Airport did suspend all flights for a short time back in 2017 after a drone was seen.

4. Dan Gettinger:

   The questions that remains to be seen is whether a drone attack will ever be considered strategically more effective than other forms of terrorism.

5. The FAA:

   We have contacted UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) test sites, and companies that have received authorization to operate drone in these areas, to date, we have not been able to determine that any of these operators were the source of the reported drone flights.