Word Finder - pilot

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A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.

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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.

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A guide book for maritime navigation.

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An instrument for detecting the compass error.

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A pilot vehicle.

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A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.

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A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.

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Something serving as a test or trial.

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We would like to run a pilot in your facility before rolling out the program citywide.

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A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.

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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.

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A cowcatcher.

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A pilot light.

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One who flies a kite.

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

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To control (an aircraft or watercraft).

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To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.

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To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)

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Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.

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The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.

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Used to control or activate another device.

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a pilot light

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Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.

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a pilot vehicle

It is strongly fortified, and there are a lighthouse, and lifeboat and pilot stations.

He stepped forward instead, following the pilot into the sub.

The soldier, who Brady took to be the pilot by his uniform, glanced up from his micro.

Juan Fernandez was discovered by a Spanish pilot of that name in 1563.

At the emperor's request he remained to pilot the mutilated budget through the House; but on the 14th of July 1909 the acceptance of his resignation was announced.

The pilot is seen as a person of authority.

The "Monitor" had the advantage of being able to out-manoeuvre her heavier and more unwieldy adversary; but the revolving turret made firing difficult and communications were none too good with the pilot house, the position of which on the forward deck lessened the range of the two turret-guns.

Naquet, although he disapproved in principle of a second chamber, secured his election to the senate in 1883 to pilot his measure through that body.

Particularly those of the airborne variety, the helicopters and jets; you'll be well served to recruit an ace pilot to your clan before challenging hard-core players.

Nothing can be more vividly told than the escape of the Yankee man-of-war through the shoals and from the English cruisers in The Pilot, but there are few things flatter in the range of fiction than the other incidents of the novel.

The questionnaire was first validated in a pilot study of patients with advanced glaucoma attending the glaucoma clinic.

I couldn't see my feet with the pilot light in the big passage which got very irksome.

They might balk at getting on an airline flight flown by a computer and prefer having a pilot on board to take over if he "feels in his gut" that something is wrong (even if that feeling is the airport burrito he had for lunch).

In accordance with this general verdict of all the states, the colonial draft bill was submitted to the imperial government for legislation as an imperial act; and six delegates were sent to England to explain the measure and to pilot it through the cabinet and parliament.

Marco Polo mentions such charts; Vasco da Gama (1498) found them in the hands of his Indian pilot, and their nature is fully explained in the Mohit or encyclopaedia of the sea compiled from ancient sources by the Turkish admiral Sidi Ali Ben Hosein in 1554.1 These charts are covered with a close network of lines intersecting each other at right angles.

When the battle was renewed (about 11.30) the "Merrimac" began firing at the "Monitor's" pilot house; and a little after noon a shot struck the sight-hole of the pilot house and blinded Lieut.

Among his most important canvases must be reckoned "The Pilot Cutter" in 1866, "The Salmon Poachers" in 1869, "The Lifeboat" in 1876, "Highland Pastures" in 1878, "The Beached Margent of the Sea" in 1880, "The Newhaven Packet" (bought by the Birmingham Corporation), and "Catspaws off the Land" (bought by the Chantrey Fund trustees); in 1885, "Mount's Bay" (bought by the Manchester Corporation) in 1886, "Nearing the Needles" in 1888, "Machrihanish Bay, Cantyre," in 1892, "Hove-to for a Pilot" in 1893, and "Glen Orchy," a landscape, in 1895.

When the fleet was constructed on the Hydaspes, Onesicritus was appointed chief pilot (in his vanity he calls himself commander), and in this capacity accompanied Nearchus on the voyage from the mouth of the Indus to the Persian gulf.

In 1427, again, with the co-operation of his father King John, he seems to have sent out the royal pilot Diogo de Sevill, followed in 1431 by Goncalo Velho Cabral, to explore the Azores, first mentioned and depicted in a Spanish treatise of 1345 (the Conosrimiento de todos los Reynos) and in an Italian map of 1351 (the Laurentian Portolano, also the first cartographical work to give us the Madeiras with modern names), but probably almost unvisited from that time to the advent of Sevill.

Forward of the turret was the iron pilot house, square in shape, and rising about 4 ft.

Among those which also include political and social topics, and are more particularly dealt with under Newspapers, may be mentioned, the Examiner (1808-1881), the Spectator (1828), the Saturday Review (1855), the Scots or National Observer (1888-1897), Outlook (1898), Pilot (1900-1903), and Speaker (1890), which became the Nation.

Pilot Charts of the North Atlantic and North Pacific are issued monthly by the U.S. Hydrographic Office, and of the North Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea by the British Meteorological Office, giving a conspectus of the normal conditions of weather and sea.

But in 1861 the war broke out, and the pilot's occupation was gone.

The contest was from the first hopeless, and, but for the personal request of the emperor that he would pilot the Finance Bill through the House in some shape or other, Prince Blow would have resigned early in the year.

In 1905 there were state lyceums in each district capital and in Guimardes, Lamego and Amarante; 5 municipal lyceums, at Celorico de Basto, Chaves, Ponte de Lima, Povoa de Varzim and Setubal; military and naval colleges; a secondary school for girls in Lisbon; numerous private secondary schools and ecclesiastical seminaries; industrial, commercial and technical schools; and pilot schools at Lisbon, Oporto, Faro and Ponta Delgada (Azores).

Edwards, however, proved a skilful pilot, and his hold on the affection of the Welsh people enabled him to raise the college to a high level of efficiency.

Regarding now the outcrops of bed-rock, there are exposures of Algonkian (doubtful, and at most a mere patch on Pilot Knob), Archean, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, sub-Carboniferous and Carboniferous.

This was followed (1821) by The Spy, which was very successful at the date of issue; The Pioneers (1823), the first of the "Leatherstocking" series; and The Pilot (1824), a bold and dashing sea-story.

The Tiger Club welcomes any pilot who wishes to fly the aircraft that we operate.

After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.

The pilot takes his place up in the glass cockpit.

Reg drilled the pilot hole for the blade first.

Research data from the Woodland Wildflower project will be used to enhance the results from the topsoil inversion pilot projects.

English aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine.

Light aircraft overshoots runway A pilot and his passenger are recovering after their light aircraft overshot a runway and ended up in a hedge.

Shell participated in the HSE pilot scheme, which we believe, helps raise awareness across various business sectors.

He smiles and says to the pilot, Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom.

In the pilot episode, Rory is accepted to the prestigious prep school Chilton.

The show premiered on October 3, 2004 and in the pilot episode, Mary Alice Young committed suicide.

In the pilot, the First Officer was a woman; that, at least, the network forced Roddenberry to alter in subsequent episodes.

Tally Ho Uniforms has been servicing the airline industry since 1948 and offers a full line of pilot uniforms and accessories.

She followed Evelyn into the craft, seeing only one Qatwali warrior to pilot the craft.

A second large Dutch fleet sailed in 1598; and, so eager was the republic to extend her commerce over the world that another fleet, consisting of five ships of Rotterdam, was sent in the same year by way of Magellan's Strait, under Jacob Mahu as admiral, with William Adams as pilot.

The normal annual expenditure amounts to about L56,000, while 24,000 is generally allotted to extraordinary works, such as new cuttings, &c. Between 1857 and 1905 a sum of about one and three quarter millions sterling was spent on engineering works, including the construction of quays, lighthouses, workshops and buildings, &c. Sulina from being a collection of mud hovels has developed into a town with 5000 inhabitants; a well-found hospital has been established where all merchant sailors receive gratuitous treatment; lighthouses, quays, floating elevators and an efficient pilot service all combine to make it a first-class port.

He gave every one a feeling that France was governed once more by a real statesman, that a pilot was at the helm.

The soldier Brady took to be the pilot by his uniform glanced up from his micro.

A pilot scheme, although successful in many respects was deeply problematic and was eventually abandoned in 1993.

For what we have here is flawed in the same way as the Twin Peaks pilot movie adaptation.

This false perception of descent may cause the pilot to pull back on the stick, which would reduce airspeed.

This box only opens the pilot air valve between 500-2000 rpm, and is the most common un-restricted SAPC box available.