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pilot
/ˈpaɪlət/
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What does pilot mean?
noun
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
More meanings (23)
noun
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (informal) A pilot vehicle.
- A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- A cowcatcher.
- A racing driver.
- A pilot light.
- One who flies a kite.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- Acronym of payment in lieu of taxes
adjective
- Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
- Used to control or activate another device.
- Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle or combination.
verb
- To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaɪlət/
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He would have to pilot his own craft, however, as these frail vessels are not intended to convey but a single person.
Venus procures of Neptune a safe voyage for him and all his men, excepting only his pilot Palinurus, who was unfortunately lost.
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It had been tried in many ways, but, unfortunately for the inventor, he could get no pilot to trust himself to it.
All this time the Pilot is carefully buckling his belt and making himself perfectly easy and comfortable, as all good pilots do.
This pilot brought us to the haven of Guatulco, the town whereof, as he told us, had but 17 Spaniards in it.