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Synonyms for pilot

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pahy-luht
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaɪ lət

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Définition of pilot

Origin :
  • 1510s, "one who steers a ship," from Middle French pillote (16c.), from Italian piloto, supposed to be an alteration of Old Italian pedoto, which usually is said to be from Medieval Greek *pedotes "rudder, helmsman," from Greek pedon "steering oar," related to pous (genitive podos) "foot" (see foot (n.)). Change of -d- to -l- in Latin ("Sabine -l-") parallels that in odor/olfactory; see lachrymose.
  • Sense extended 1848 to "one who controls a balloon," and 1907 to "one who flies an airplane." As an adjective, 1788 as "pertaining to a pilot;" from 1928 as "serving as a prototype." Thus the noun pilot meaning "pilot episode" (etc.), attested from 1962. Pilot light is from 1890.
  • noun person who guides aircraft, ship, or other vehicle
Example sentences :
  • Who is going to say whether an applicant is competent to pilot a balloon or airship?
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • Captain Bob has been a Sandy Hook pilot for some years back.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • That afternoon it cleared off, and we found a pilot lying a little outside of us.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • At the Long Sault, we were all put in boats, with a Canadian pilot in each end.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Not a pilot would come out, and if they had, it would have done us no good.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • We put our pilot on board this ship, which was doing a good turn all round.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The pilot immediately said, “Why, where could he have been brought up?”
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • The keel was laid for a ship of thirty-five tons, to be named the Pilot.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • He was like a pilot who finds the tempest too strong for him.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • The pilot of the incoming plane was there, too, and the radio man.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
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