pilot
part of speech
noun (a pilot, pilots); verb (pilot, pilots, piloted, piloting); adjective (a pilot scheme)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pilot is a person who flies a plane or helicopter. tree →
2) A person who guides big ships into a harbour. tree →
3) (verb) To pilot is to fly or steer something. tree →
4) A pilot test or project is a small first try to see if something works. tree →
5) On a long sea voyage, the pilot is the sailor who works out which way the ship should go. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in stories and jobs lessons: the pilot flies the plane and the cabin crew look after passengers. In everyday life: "the pilot light" of a gas boiler. Phrase: "on autopilot" means doing something without thinking.
examples
- The pilot flew the plane over the sea. tree →
- She wants to be a pilot when she grows up. tree →
- The pilot told us to fasten our seat belts. tree →
- A pilot boat guided the ship into the port. tree →
- He piloted the helicopter to the hospital. tree →
- The school is running a pilot of the new reading app. tree →
- I was on autopilot and walked the wrong way. tree →
- Jason was appointed commander-in-chief of the expedition, Tiphys acted as steersman, Lynceus as pilot. tree →
note
Countable: a pilot. Both men and women are pilots. Related: co-pilot, autopilot.
In the corpora
- Think of a pilot in a flight simulator: the cockpit is a model, but the skill is real.
- Pilots learn real skills in simulators, and you learn real language and reasoning in your lessons.
- "The pilot terrified" hides the animal OTTER across "pilot" and "terrified".
- Children may sometimes visit a plane's cockpit, but only trained pilots fly the plane.
- In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pilot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.