"drone" (v. trans.)

[Dan Goncharoff]

What would be the difference between an unmanned radio-controlled airplane
used as a toy and an unmanned radio-controlled airplane used by the
military? Are both drones? Is only the military plane a drone? What makes a
drone a drone?

BTW, I used to see an unmanned radio-controlled airplane used for target
practice in the middle of the golf course at the Larson Barracks at
Kitzingen, Germany, where I learned to play as a civiloian living in
Germany.

DanG


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Actually the U.S. military has used "drones" (unmanned, radio-guided
> airplanes) since WW2 - originally as targets in antiaircraft training.
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> The worm turns.
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> You can even see a photo of a drone standing next to Marilyn Monroe in
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2
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> JL
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Martin Kaminer <martin.kaminer at gmail.com
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> > Rather curious usage example given here:
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> > drone
> > verb [I]     /dr=C9=99=CA n/    /dro=CA n/
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> > Definition
> > =E2=80=BA to make a low continuous noise that does not change its note:
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> > An airplane droned in the background.
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> > (Definition of drone verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's
> > Dictionary & Thesaurus =C2=A9 Cambridge University Press)
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> > So I suppose then from what we've heard drones do in fact drone, in
> > some cases rather loudly.
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> > I still prefer the tambura.
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> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
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> > >> Fascinatingly, I coined this verb independently about two weeks ago.
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> > > as i said on my blog, it was inevitable.
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> > > arnold
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