pilot

Definition

  • noun: a person who flies an airplane, helicopter, etc.
  • noun: one employed to steer a ship
  • verb: to fly (an airplane, spacecraft, etc.)
  • verb: to act as a guide to
  • often used figuratively
  • synonyms: helmsman, gyropilot, aegis

Examples

  • The education bill was 'piloted' through the House and Senate.

  • a skillful manager who has 'piloted' his team to the playoffs

  • He skillfully 'piloted' the ship into port during the storm.

Movie quotes

  • (..) They're highly recommended by the Royal Geographic Society. She's charming and hss read everything. - He's meant to be a ruddy good flier. - We don't need another pilot. He can make aerial maps of the whole route. You can't explore from the air, Madox. lf you could explore from the air Contact. (..)
    1996 The English Patient
  • (..) Hana, get down! He's dead. He's dead. Name, rank, serial number? No, sorry. l think l wss a pilot. l wss found in the wreckage of a plane at the beginning of the war. Can you remember where you were born? Am l being interrogated? You should be trying to trick me, (..)
    1996 The English Patient