PILOT


Meaning of PILOT in English

■ noun

1》 a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

2》 a person with expert local knowledge qualified to take charge of a ship entering or leaving a harbour.

↘ archaic a guide or leader.

3》 [often as modifier ] something done or produced as an experiment or test before wider introduction: a ~ scheme.

4》 Telecommunications an unmodulated reference signal transmitted with another signal for the purposes of control or synchronization.

■ verb ( ~s , ~ing , ~ed )

1》 act as a ~ of (an aircraft or ship).

↘guide; steer.

2》 test (a scheme, project, etc.) before introducing it more widely.

Derivatives

~age noun

~less adjective

Origin

C16: from Fr. ~e , from med. L. ~us , based on Gk pēdon 'oar', (plural) 'rudder'.

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