How to pronounce “pilot”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
• 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.
• Something serving as a test or trial.
• (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
• (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.
• (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
• (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
• A pilot light.
• One who flies a kite.
• A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
• [Adjective]
• Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
• Used to control or activate another device.
• Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
• [Verb]
• (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, television show, etc.)
• (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
• (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.

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