Definition of Pilot

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Definition of Pilot

Pilot

One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine.

A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable.

The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.

To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft).

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.

Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

An instrument for detecting the compass error.

The cowcatcher of a locomotive.

To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.

Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.

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Pilot Quotations

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
Dane Cook

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.
Marc Jacobs

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
Roald Dahl

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
Denzel Washington

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
Jo Brand

I always wanted to be a pilot.
Bo Jackson

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

Pilot Translations

pilot in Dutch is binnenbrengen, loodsen
pilot in French is pilote, lamaneur
pilot in German is Pilot, Pilot, steurn, Lotse, Haupt
pilot in Italian is pilota, andara, volare, pilota
pilot in Norwegian is los
pilot in Portuguese is piloto
pilot in Spanish is conducir, piloto
pilot in Swedish is pilot, lots, lotsa

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