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Pilot

noun

1.

Someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight. Synonym: airplane pilot.

2.

A person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor.

3.

A program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors. Synonyms: pilot film, pilot program.

4.

Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies. Synonyms: archetype, original.

5.

Small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner. Synonyms: pilot burner, pilot light.

6.

An inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track. Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, fender.

verb

(past & past part. piloted; pres. part. piloting)

1.

Operate an airplane. Synonyms: aviate, fly.

2.

Act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance. Synonym: navigate. "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?"

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"Pilot" Quotes from Famous Books

... Then the pilot's mate [23]—"the look-out man at the prow," to give him his proper title—was, I found, so well acquainted with the place for everything that, even off the ship, [24] he could tell you where each set of things was laid and how many there were of each, just as well as any one who ...

— The Economist • Xenophon

... the air. Men and women waved their handkerchiefs. From a group of soldiers on the shore came expressions of good luck. In response to Jack's request, a pilot had been hurried aboard ...

— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake

... put his hand over his eyes and fumbled his way to the controls. He turned his back to the pilot's chair and leaned heavily against it. "Okay," he said. "This thing is developing into a duel between you and those ... those colleagues of yours out there. I guess the least we ... I ... can do is not to fight you while you're ...

— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn

... When he introduces a French song in his plays this does not imply any intimate acquaintance with the lyrical poetry of France but rather deference to the taste of the Court. He would pick up words of foreign languages with the same quickness with which he initiated himself into the way of witch or pilot, fishwife or doctor, but we have an excellent proof that his knowledge of neither French nor Italian was profound. We know how consistently he makes his characters speak each in his own language. Yet in the Auto da Fama, whereas the Spaniard speaks Spanish ...

— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente

... him on this subject.] He used to show them to me, and say, 'Col, Sellers you've a mind to untangle this sort of thing.' Lord, how everything comes back to me. Laura was a little thing then. 'The Judge and I were just laying our plans to buy the Pilot ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 7. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

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