pilot
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”),[1] hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpaɪlət/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: Pilate
- Rhymes: -aɪlət
Noun
[edit]pilot (plural pilots)
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- They scud before the wind, and sail in open sea.
Ahead of all the master pilot steers;
And, as he leads, the following navy veers.
- A person who knows well the depths 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.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, E. L. Cary and A. Hart, page 43:
- So we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, E. L. Cary and A. Hart, page 43:
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 40:
- “I agreed with my husband when he said that to do the business properly we must do a pilot first.”
- We would like to run a pilot in your facility before rolling out the program citywide.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- (television) 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.
- 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):
- I think her biggest deal was she starred in a pilot. […] Well, the way they pick TV shows is they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that one show to the people who pick shows, and on the strength of that one show, they decide if they wanna make more shows.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- A pilot light.
- One who flies a kite.
- 2003, John P. Glaser, A Father's Collage, page 31:
- Julia has become quite a good kite pilot. She has learned how to repeatedly buzz her father's head, coming within two feet, and not hitting him.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
Derived terms
[edit]- automatic pilot
- autopilot
- back-door pilot
- backdoor pilot
- branch pilot
- bush pilot
- busted pilot
- charter pilot
- cock pilot
- co-pilot
- copilot
- cow-pilot
- desk pilot
- fighter pilot
- hangar pilot
- longfin pilot whale
- pilot balloon
- pilot beam
- pilot biscuit
- pilot boat
- pilot bread
- pilot burner
- pilot cloth
- pilot coat
- pilot engine
- pilot experiment
- pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)
- pilot flag
- pilot hole
- pilot-hole
- pilot jacket
- pilot lamp
- pilot light
- pilotman
- pilot nut
- pilot officer
- pilot plant
- pilot project
- pilot scheme
- pilot snake
- pilot valve
- pilot version
- pilot wave
- pilot whale (Globicephala spp.)
- pilot wheel
- rug pilot
- sky pilot
- test pilot
- yard pilot
Descendants
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Adjective
[edit]pilot (not comparable)
- Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
- a pilot run of the new factory
- The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.
- Used to control or activate another device.
- a pilot light
- Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
- a pilot vehicle
Translations
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Verb
[edit]pilot (third-person singular simple present pilots, present participle piloting, simple past and past participle piloted)
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 279:
- One of the Midland Lines' Birmingham R.C.W. Type 2 diesels, No. D5403, made the debut of its class in the Manchester area on July 28 when it appeared in the early hours on freight; after four days in the area it left for the south piloting B.R./Sulzer Type 4 diesel No. D88 on the 2.25 Manchester Central-St. Pancras.
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References
[edit]- “pilot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pilot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pilot (feminine pilota, masculine plural pilots, feminine plural pilotes)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m (plural pilots)
Further reading
[edit]- “pilot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pilot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pilot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pilot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m anim
- pilot (controller of aircraft)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pilot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “pilot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “pilot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot c (singular definite piloten, plural indefinite piloter)
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | pilot | piloten | piloter | piloterne |
genitive | pilots | pilotens | piloters | piloternes |
References
[edit]- “pilot” in Den Danske Ordbog
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism, borrowed from English pilot, from Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot (plural pilot-pilot, first-person possessive pilotku, second-person possessive pilotmu, third-person possessive pilotnya)
- (aviation) aviator, pilot: A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Synonyms: aviator, juru terbang, penerbang, pilot
- Synonym: juruterbang (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pilot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot
Verb
[edit]pilot
- present conjunctive of pilēt
- (with the particle lai) imperative conjunctive of pilēt
Participle
[edit]pilot (invariable)
- adverbial invariable present active participle of pilēt
Middle French
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Noun
[edit]pilot m (plural pilots)
- stake (pole designed to be pushed into the ground)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m (definite singular piloten, indefinite plural piloter, definite plural pilotene)
- pilot (controller of an aircraft)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pilot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m (definite singular piloten, indefinite plural pilotar, definite plural pilotane)
- pilot (controller of an aircraft)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pilot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m pers
- pilot (controller of aircraft)
Declension
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m inan
- (electronics) remote control
- (film, marketing) trailer (preview of a film)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pilot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pilot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot m (plural piloți)
Declension
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[edit]Swedish
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilot c
- a pilot
- Piloten är den som styr ett flygplan, helikopter, rymdskepp eller dylikt
- The pilot is the person who controls an airplane, helicopter, spaceship, or the like
Declension
[edit]Declension of pilot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pilot | piloten | piloter | piloterna |
Genitive | pilots | pilotens | piloters | piloternas |
References
[edit]- pilot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pilot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pilot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Turkish
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pilot
Noun
[edit]pilot (definite accusative pilotu, plural pilotlar)
- pilot
- race car driver
- Synonym: araba yarışçısı
Derived terms
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[edit]- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/aɪlət
- Rhymes:English/aɪlət/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- Australian English
- en:Road transport
- English informal terms
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Mining
- en:Aviation
- en:Television
- en:Rail transportation
- European English
- en:Motor racing
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:People
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɔt
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɔt/2 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech hard masculine animate nouns
- cs:Aviation
- cs:Occupations
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Indonesian internationalisms
- Indonesian terms borrowed from English
- Indonesian terms derived from English
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle French
- Indonesian terms derived from Italian
- Indonesian terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Indonesian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/lɔt
- Rhymes:Indonesian/lɔt/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɔt
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɔt/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/t
- Rhymes:Indonesian/t/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Aviation
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian noun forms
- Latvian verb forms
- Latvian participles
- Latvian present active participles
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from French
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Aviation
- nb:Occupations
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Aviation
- nn:Occupations
- Polish terms derived from Italian
- Polish terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms borrowed from French
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ilɔt
- Rhymes:Polish/ilɔt/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Electronics
- pl:Film
- pl:Marketing
- pl:Devices
- pl:Occupations
- pl:People
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Swedish terms derived from French
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Turkish terms borrowed from French
- Turkish terms derived from French
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish adjectives
- Turkish nouns