Drone most commonly refers to:
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Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
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Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
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Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
Film and television
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''Drones'' (2010 film), an American office comedy
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''Drones'' (2013 film), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal
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''Drone'' (2014 film), a Norwegian documentary film
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''Drone'' (2017 film), a Canadian thriller film
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"Drones" (''Beavis and Butt-Head''), 2011 episode
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"Drone" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), 1998 episode
* Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the
Borg in Star Trek
* Drones, service robots in ''
Silent Running
''Silent Running'' is a 1972 American environmental-themed apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic science fiction film. It is the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, and stars Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse ...
'' (1972)
Literature
* Drone, a member of the
Drones Club
The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London. Many of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members.
Various members ...
in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
* Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society
The Culture of Iain M. Banks
Music
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Drone (music)
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archai ...
, a continuous note or chord
Genres
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Drone metal, a musical style
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Drone music, a musical style
Instruments
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Drone (bagpipes)
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Drone zither
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Bladder fiddle
The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonato ...
or drone
Artists
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The Drones (Australian band)
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The Drones (English band)
The Drones are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were in their early days produced and managed by Paul Morley.
One critic wrote: "Bonafide DIY three-chord wonders, the Drones were there at punk' ...
Albums
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''The Drones'' (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones
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''Drones'' (Muse album) (2015)
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Drones World Tour
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''Drones'' (Robert Rich album) (1983)
Songs
* "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from ''
Rainier Fog''
* "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from ''
Time to Go Home''
* "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from ''
Archetype''
* "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from ''
In Silence We Yearn
''In Silence We Yearn'' is the second studio album by the Swedish post-rock band Oh Hiroshima, self-released digitally in November 2015. The album was re-released on CD on 1 July 2016 by Fluttery Records and on vinyl on 2 December by Napalm Recor ...
''
* "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from ''
The Sufferer & the Witness''
Other uses
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Drone (wrestler), Mexican
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Drone, Georgia
Drone is an unincorporated community in Burke County, Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also ref ...
, a place in the US
* Drone, a fertile male
ant
* Drones or yanme'e, a fictional species in the
Covenant in ''Halo''
See also
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Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...
, sometimes called a dronepipe
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Drone strike
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