verb
definition
To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
example
The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.
noun
definition
The activity of the verb pioneer.
definition
A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots.
adjective
definition
Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques.
example
Norway as a polar nation would not have been what it is today without their tireless pioneering efforts. [Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen]
Examples of pioneering in a Sentence
This pioneering work showed little development until about the middle of the 19th century.
A pioneering program to help stop young people falling into a life of crime is proving a success.
We really want to capture the adventuresome and pioneering spirit he brought to Napster in a way that is not the ordinary biopic.
Astex Technology is a structure-based drug discovery company pioneering the use of high throughput X-ray crystallography.
Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator, will be celebrated on a Royal Mail stamp issued on 29 April.
Over the last 15 years, St Thomas has been pioneering the use of much lower doses of intravenous cyclophosphamide.
We have recently done pioneering experiments to demonstrate that resonant radiofrequency electromagnetic fields also affect radical reactions.
Unique service for disabled faces ax A cash crisis is threatening the future of a pioneering city counseling center for the disabled.
Paul Sinha, a pioneering Asian comic and regular headliner at UK comedy clubs, entertained guests.
We provide stimulating teaching and pioneering research in an academic setting that is uniquely interdisciplinary.
In 1975, the pioneering jurist Lord Denning had no truck with the alleged unavailability of negative declarations.
We have been profoundly marked by the experience of our economic and social pioneering and remain marked by it to this day.
A pioneering conference introducing peacemakers from around the world will soon be held at the University of Bradford.
Tony's topic title was a little reminiscent of the old west, where pioneering settlements were given names according to their surroundings.
The first two recipes come from The Cranks Recipe Book (Grafton ), produced by the now famous but once pioneering vegetarian restaurant.
It features the northernmost terminus of the Kent & East Sussex Railroad and is the birthplace of pioneering printer William Caxton.
This in itself is a pioneering venture, unique in Asia and most other parts of the world.
The pioneering Crusade team are developing variants of the herpes simplex virus that can be used in novel treatments in cancers.
Pickering, Pioneering in Formosa (London, 1898); George Candidius, A Short Account of the Island of Formosa in the Indies ., vol.
On July 6 1885, Pasteur tested his pioneering rabies vaccine on man for the first time.
Over the last few decades, the pioneering work of the community media activists has been largely recuperated by the hi-tech and media industries.
Tony 's topic title was a little reminiscent of the old west, where pioneering settlements were given names according to their surroundings.
The first two recipes come from The Cranks Recipe Book (Grafton), produced by the now famous but once pioneering vegetarian restaurant.
Participation is a pioneering video documentary, and a free-form time capsule of an era.
Oprah, as she has many times before, is pioneering a new sort of female boldness.
What's more, they always convey the pioneering American spirit.
The faculty at HBS is made up of pioneering researchers and entrepreneurs, as well as former managers of leading companies, non-profits, and government organizations.
In his pioneering work on child behavior, the American developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell claimed that infants as young as four weeks display signs of handedness and that right-handedness is clearly established by age one.
Perhaps the best dancer is someone like Arthur Murray, the pioneering teacher who spread an American style of ballroom through 350 franchised dance studios in over fifty countries.
In the 1970s, a pioneering employee named Tom Wolfe, who trained as a concierge in Europe, set up a concierge desk in the hotel lobby.
While it's impossible to know her exact time of birth, we do know that Goodman has a strong, pioneering sun in Aries.
Aries does have a number of positive traits, and chief among them is the sign's adventurous, pioneering and enthusiastic nature.
Continuing its list of firsts in the watch world, Seiko marketed the first quartz watch in 1969, and its pioneering efforts continued by introducing the world's first TV watch.
The Junkers watch of today is still made to the specifications of the pioneering German engineer.
You can get just about any typical minivan options on this van, but this model isn't known for pioneering new gadgets.
Others, however, deemed the album a pioneering feat.
In real science, the study of artificial intelligence and androids continues with pioneering science fiction into science fact.
Lynda Weinman, the pioneering web design educator, first coined the term "browser-safe palette."
Since its launch in March 2000, it has been a significant force in supporting creatively adventurous and pioneering musical activity.
The modern apologist must do ephemeral work - unless it should chance that he proves to be the skirmisher, pioneering for a modified dogmatic. He holds a watching brief.
Of course there is nothing in any way objectionable to the republication of a book that was indeed a pioneering effort in its time.
Their licensed lines of Chevrolet, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Ford Mustang, and Coca Cola, all perfectly illustrate the pioneering personality that is embraced by the American sprit.
These pioneering insurance programs provided the basis for what would become the Blue Shield Plans that we know today.
His voluminous writings in philology, natural history, physics and mathematics often accordingly have a good deal of the historical interest which attaches to pioneering work, however imperfectly performed; otherwise they now take rank as curiosities of literature merely.
During these two years he became convinced that the success of the white missionary in a field like Africa was not to be reckoned by the tale of doubtful conversions he could send home each year - that the proper work for such men was that of pioneering, opening up and starting new ground, leaving native agents to work it out in detail.
On the traces of dragon and serpent myths in the Old Testament and their significance, see Gunkel, Schopfung and Chaos (1895) - a pioneering work of the highest merit - and Ency.
His chief title to fame, however, is his pioneering work in the application of the art of photography to astronomical research.