Drone vs. Poke

A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.

jab or prod (someone or something) with one's finger or a sharp object

An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.

thrust (something, such as one's head) in a particular direction

A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge

an act of poking someone or something

A remotely controlled or autonomous aircraft with no pilot on board. Also called unmanned aircraft system.

a look or search around a place

A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.

power or acceleration in a car

Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.

a woman's bonnet with a projecting brim or front, popular especially in the early 19th century.

A long sustained tone.

a bag or small sack

Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.

another term for pokeweed

To make a continuous low dull humming sound

a North American plant of the lily family with a poisonous black rhizome and tall sprays of yellow-green flowers.

To speak in a monotonous tone

a Hawaiian dish of marinated raw fish or seafood, often served over rice

To pass or act in a monotonous way.

To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.

To utter in a monotonous low tone

To make (a hole or pathway, for example) by or as if by prodding, elbowing, or jabbing

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

To push; thrust

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

To stir (a fire) by prodding the wood or coal with a poker or stick.

One who performs menial or tedious work.

(Slang) To strike; punch.

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

To make thrusts or jabs, as with a stick or poker.

(Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.

To pry or meddle; intrude

A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.

To search or look curiously in a desultory manner

A low-pitched hum or buzz.

To proceed in a slow or lazy manner; putter

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

To thrust forward; appear

A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.

A push, thrust, or jab.

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

(Slang) A punch or blow with the fist

To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

One who moves slowly or aimlessly; a dawdler.

To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.

A projecting brim at the front of a bonnet.

To speak in a monotone way.

A large bonnet having a projecting brim.

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

A sack; a bag.

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

Pokeweed.

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.

A Hawaiian salad or appetizer traditionally consisting of cubed raw fish, often yellowfin tuna, that is marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil, and mixed with diced onions, sesame seeds, and ginger.

A humming or deep murmuring sound.

To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.

A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

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

(figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.

To love in idleness; to do nothing.

To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

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

(transitive) To put a poke device to prevent leaping or breaking fences on (an animal).

an unchanging intonation

(transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.

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

To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

(transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.

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

To penetrate in sexual intercourse.

make a monotonous low dull sound;

A prod, jab, or thrust.

talk in a monotonous voice

A lazy person; a dawdler.

A stupid or uninteresting person.

An old, worn-out horse.

(US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.

A poke bonnet.

A hit, especially an extra base hit.

A sack or bag.

A long, wide sleeve.

An ice cream cone.

(dialectal) Pokeweed.

(Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; - called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

A bag; a sack; a pocket.

A long, wide sleeve; - called also poke sleeve.

The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.

A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

To thrust with the horns; to gore.

To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous

a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);

(boxing) a blow with the fist;

poke or thrust abruptly;

search or inquire in a meddlesome way;

stir by poking;

hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument;

make a hole by poking