drone
Stingless male bee
A drone is an unmanned aircraft, typically remote-controlled or autonomous: Drones delivered packages to rural areas.
The word comes from the male honeybee, which makes no honey and exists only to mate with the queen—hence drone for a person who does tedious work or lives off others' labor.
The bee's deep humming sound gives us the verb drone, meaning to make a low continuous sound or to speak monotonously: He droned on about quarterly projections.
A drone is also a sustained bass note in music, especially from bagpipes.
Four-rotor aerial vehicle
- UAVCrewless aircraft
- multicopterMulti-rotor flying vehicle
- hexacopterSix-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle
- octocopterEight-propeller aerial vehicle
FPV · aerial photography · payload · airframe · telemetry · autopilot · rotorcraft · VTOL
Low steady sound
- whirContinuous humming sound
- buzzContinuous low drone
- hummingContinuous low-pitched sound
- whirringContinuous buzzing sound
vibration · purr · murmur · susurration · throb · resonance · low-pitched · steady
Person who toils
- hiveBee dwelling structure
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- queenMost powerful chess piece
- foragerOne seeking wild food
pollination · nectar · honeycomb · brood · apiary · beekeeper · pollen · stinger
Unchangingly dull
- dullLacking edge or interest
- tediousBoring through length
- flatLacking vertical variation
- boringFailing to engage interest
repetitive · soporific · tiresome · dreary · lifeless · uninflected · unvarying · humdrum
quadcopter
Four-rotor aerial vehicle
- UAVCrewless aircraft
- multicopterMulti-rotor flying vehicle
- hexacopterSix-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle
octocopter · FPV · aerial photography · payload · airframe · telemetry · autopilot · rotorcraft · VTOL · propulsion
hum
Low steady sound
whirring · vibration · purr · murmur · susurration · throb · resonance · low-pitched · steady · background
worker
Person who toils
forager · pollination · nectar · honeycomb · brood · apiary · beekeeper · pollen · stinger · swarm
monotonous
Unchangingly dull
boring · repetitive · soporific · tiresome · dreary · lifeless · uninflected · unvarying · humdrum · plodding
intone
Recite in singsong
murmur · incant · liturgy · mantra · prayer · psalm · gregorian · monastic · ritual · ceremonial
joystick
Tilting lever for control
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- throttlePower flow controller
controller · servo · telemetry · frequency · channel · antenna · FPV · range · GPS · waypoint
- powered machineselectric car, laptop, smartphone, television, microwave
- aircraft typesseaplane, Boeing 737, floatplane, fighter jets, bush plane
- airplane hangaraircraft, plane, jet, helicopter, blimp
- remote controlsremote, quadcopter, helicopter, airplane, boat
- airplane soundswhoosh, roar, rumble, whine, hum
- surveillancesurveillance, CCTV, security camera, surveillance camera, surveillance cameras
droneworkaholic
Compulsive labor addict
hard worker · self-starter · overachiever · go-getter · hustler
- drone onTalk tediously at length
- weaponized dronesArmed unmanned aerial vehicles
- drone strikeRemotely piloted aerial attack
- drone footageFilm from unmanned aircraft
- military droneUnmanned combat aircraft
- office droneMonotonous corporate employee