different between drone vs krone

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?o?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From Middle English drane, from Old English dr?n, from Proto-West Germanic *dr?nu, from Proto-Germanic *dr?niz, *dr?nuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?r?n- (“bee, drone, hornet”).

Cognate with Dutch drone (“male bee or wasp”), Low German drone (“drone”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Danish drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).

In sense “unmanned aircraft”, due to early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths. The verb sense derives from this sense.

Noun

drone (plural drones)

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

   • All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

2. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v^[2]:

     SHYLOCK:

     The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,

     Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day

     More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me;

     Therefore I part with him; and part with him

     To one what I would have him help to waste

     His borrowed purse. […]

   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 117:

     he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve.

   • by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society

3. One who performs menial or tedious work.

   Synonym: drudge

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

   Synonyms: UAV, UAS

   Hyponym: quadcopter

Usage notes

• In sense “unmanned aircraft”, primarily used informally of military aircraft or consumer radio controlled quadcopters, without precise definition.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Spanish: dron
• ? Polish: dron
• ? Asturian: dron

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

Etymology 2

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjan? (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to roar, hum, drone”).

Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. To speak in a monotone way.

Translations

Noun

drone (plural drones)

1. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone.

2. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
3. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

   • The monotonous drone of the wheel.

Translations

Further reading

• drone (bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• drone (aircraft) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Doner, Roden, doner, nerdo, orned, redon, renod, ronde

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English drone (“aircraft drone”). Doublette with dar (“male bee”), which descended from Middle Dutch, cf. Limburgish dreen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dro?n/
• Hyphenation: drone
• Rhymes: -o?n

Noun

drone m (plural drones, diminutive droontje n)

1. a remotely controlled aircraft; a drone

Derived terms

• droneaanval

Finnish

Etymology

< English drone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?drone/, [?dro?ne?]
• Rhymes: -one
• Syllabification: dro?ne

Noun

drone

1. (Anglicism) drone (type of unmanned aircraft)

Declension

Synonyms

• drooni
• lennokki

French

Etymology

From English drone

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From English drone

Noun

drone m (invariable)

1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Anagrams

• derno, dreno, drenò, rendo, ronde

Middle English

Noun

drone

1. Alternative form of drane

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).

Noun

drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural droner, definite plural dronene)

1. a drone (male bee)
2. a drone (radio-controlled pilotless aircraft)

Synonyms

• dronefly (aircraft)

References

• “drone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dru?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural dronar, definite plural dronane)

1. drone (male bee)
2. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Synonyms

• (male bee): hannbie
• (aircraft): dronefly

References

• “drone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English drone.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?d??.n?/, [?d??.n?]
• Hyphenation: dro?ne

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dron

Etymology

From English drone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?on/, [?d??õn]

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

1. drone

English

Etymology

From Danish krone (“crown”) and Norwegian krone. Doublet of crown.

Noun

krone (plural kroner)

1. The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.

Synonyms

• crown

Translations

Anagrams

• Nkore

Afrikaans

Noun

krone

1. plural of kroon

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k???o?n?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German kr?ne, from Latin cor?na (“crown”). Compare also German Krone.

Noun

krone c (singular definite kronen, plural indefinite kroner)

1. crown (royal hairdress, and in a wider sense: the royal power)
2. krone, crown (the currency of Denmark, Norway or Sweden, divided into 100 øre)
3. heads (side of coin)
4. (botany) top (tree top)
5. (botany) corolla
6. (anatomy) crown (of a tooth)

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Faroese: króna
• ? Icelandic: króna

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German kr?nen, from Latin cor?n?re (“to crown”). Compare also German krönen.

Verb

krone (imperative kron, infinitive at krone, present tense kroner, past tense kronede, perfect tense har kronet)

1. to crown

Inflection

Derived terms

• kroning

Further reading

• krone on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Verb

krone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of kronen

Anagrams

• koren, roken

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

krone f or m (definite singular krona or kronen, indefinite plural kroner, definite plural kronene)

1. krone (the currencies of Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Can also be used about Estonia's currency (kroon))
2. krona (currency of Sweden)
3. a crown (a royal or imperial headdress)
4. (dentistry) crown (a prosthetic covering for a tooth)
5. crown, canopy or top (of a tree)

Derived terms

Verb

krone (present tense kroner, past tense krona or kronet, past participle krona or kronet)

1. to crown, or coronate (not normally used), perform a coronation

Derived terms

• kroning

References

• “krone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krone_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “krone_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (verb): krona (a-infinitive)
• (noun): krona (non-standard since 2012)
  • (heads of a coin): kron

Etymology

From Old Norse krúna, from Middle Low German, from Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?), from ??????? (kor?nós, “curved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kru?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

krone f (definite singular krona, indefinite plural kroner, definite plural kronene)

1. crown (a royal or imperial headdress)
2. (metonymically) the sovereign as a head of state
3. (numismatics) a coin of such a currency
4. (numismatics) a currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress), or more specifically:
   1. krone (the currencies of Norway, Denmark and Iceland);
   2. krona (currency of Sweden);
   3. the Estonian kroon;
   4. (historical) such currencies used within the Austro-Hungarian Empire or her successor states.
5. heads (side of coin)

   Antonym: mynt

6. (dentistry) crown (prosthetic covering for a tooth)
7. crown or top (of a tree)

Derived terms

Related terms

• korona

Verb

krone (present tense kronar, past tense krona, past participle krona, passive infinitive kronast, present participle kronande, imperative kron)

1. to crown

   Synonym: kryne

Derived terms

• kroning f (“coronation”)

References

• “krone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• enkor, koner, korne, nokre, orken, roken, rokne, ronke, ròken

Slovak

Etymology

From Danish krone and Norwegian krone, from Latin cor?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr?n?/

Noun

krone f

1. (numismatics) krona (currency of Denmark and Norway)

References

• krone in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk