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drone

/drohn/US // droʊn //UK // (drəʊn) //

嗡嗡声,嗡嗡的声音,嗡嗡声声,嗡嗡嗡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
    • : an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight: the GPS of a U.S. spy drone. any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely: a radio-controlled drone.
    • : a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer.
    • : a drudge.

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Examples

  • It even began showing off some of its other products, such as a covid-19 tracking system called Fleming, and Eclipse, which can hack drones deemed a security threat.

  • NASA is planning a new mission for 2026 called Dragonfly, in which a rotorcraft drone is to fly around Titan and study the moon’s potential hospitability to life in greater detail.

  • A local whale watching group captured the event with a drone, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

  • Facebook wanted to use solar-powered drones and laser-based tech to shoot wifi to antennas.

  • Materials chemist Eijiro Miyako of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Nomi imagines outsourcing pollination to automatous drones that deliver pollen grains to individual flowers.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

  • Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.

  • But it takes more than just pilots to operate the drone fleet.

  • In other words, the Air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits.

  • The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • The melody or tune is played on one of the pipes furnished with holes for the purpose, while the other three give a drone, bass.

  • Let those who are fit for nothing else go and drone over A B C with ragged children, if they like.

  • Not a sound except the drone of a mountain honey-bee hanging over some blossom.

  • The buzzer which he had expected to roar in his ears was only a faint drone, and above it he could easily hear other sounds.