Drone vs. Robot

Dronenoun

A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.

Dronenoun

Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.

Dronenoun

One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.

Dronenoun

A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Dronenoun

A low-pitched hum or buzz.

Dronenoun

(musical instrument) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.

Dronenoun

A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.

Dronenoun

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Droneverb

To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

Droneverb

To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.

Droneverb

To speak in a monotone way.

Dronenoun

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

Dronenoun

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

Dronenoun

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

Dronenoun

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Dronenoun

A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

Droneverb

To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

Droneverb

To love in idleness; to do nothing.

Dronenoun

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

Dronenoun

an unchanging intonation

Dronenoun

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

Dronenoun

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

Dronenoun

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

Droneverb

make a monotonous low dull sound;

Droneverb

talk in a monotonous voice

Robotnoun

A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

Robotnoun

An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

Robotnoun

(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

Robotnoun

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).

Robotnoun

(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

Robotnoun

(dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

Robotnoun

a mechanism that can move automatically

Robotnoun

(especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically

Robotnoun

a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer

Robotnoun

a person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner

Robotnoun

another term for crawler

Robotnoun

a set of automatic traffic lights

Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within.