Word Meanings - PILOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Dryden. 2. Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees. 3. Figuratively:

Additional info about word: PILOT

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Dryden. 2. Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees. 3. Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course. 4. An instrument for detecting the compass error. 5. The cowcatcher of a locomotive. Pilot balloon, a small balloon sent up in advance of a large one, to show the direction and force of the wind. -- Pilot bird. A bird found near the Caribbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. The black-bellied plover. -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going in advance of a train to make sure that the way is clear. -- Pilot fish. A pelagic carangoid fish (Naucrates ductor); -- so named because it is often seen in company with a shark, swimming near a ship, on account of which sailors imagine that it acts as a pilot to the shark. The rudder fish (Seriola zonata). -- Pilot jack, a flag or signal hoisted by a vessel for a pilot. -- Pilot jacket, a pea jacket. -- Pilot nut , a conical nut applied temporarily to the threaded end of a pin, to protect the thread and guide the pin when it is driven into a hole. Waddell. -- Pilot snake A large North American snake (Coluber obsoleus). It is lustrous black, with white edges to some of the scales. Called also mountain black snake. The pine snake. -- Pilot whale. Same as Blackfish, 1. (more info) lead; peilen, pegelen, to sound, measure (fr. D. & G. peil, pegel, a sort of measure, water mark) + lood lead, akin to E. lead. The pilot, then, is the lead man, i.e., he who throws the lead. See Pail, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PILOT)

• Guide
• Lead
• direct
• conduct
• pilot
• regulate
• superintend
• influence
• train
• manage

Related words: (words related to PILOT)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• PILOTAGE
  1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• DIRECT
  In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• MANAGEABLE
  Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTRESS
  A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• CONDUCTRESS
  A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.