pilot

astronaut, pilot

direct, conduct, guide, lead, pilot

名词 pilot:

1. someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
   同义词：airplane pilot
2. a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
3. a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
   同义词：pilot program, pilot film
4. an original model on which something is patterned
   同义词：original, archetype
5. small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
   同义词：pilot burner, pilot light
6. an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
   同义词：fender, buffer, cowcatcher

动词 pilot:

1. fly a plane
   同义词：fly, aviate
2. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
   同义词：navigate

1. The pilot landed the plane safely.
   驾驶员使飞机安全降落。
2. A pilot must be awake to the changes in the weather.
   飞行员必须警觉天气的变化。
3. He is an airline pilot.
   他是民航驾驶员。
4. The pilot charted the plane's course.
   飞行员制定了飞机的航线。
5. Schools in this area are piloting the new maths course.
   这一带的学校正试用新的数学教程。
6. He piloted the old lady through the crowd to her seat.
   他领着这位老人穿过人群走到她的座位上。
7. We are doing a pilot study to see if the new product will sell well.
   我们正在为这种新产品做试销调查，看它的销路好不好。
8. Mark used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River.
   马克曾在密西西比河上当过领航员。

pi.lot

n.（名词）
One who operates or is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight.
飞行员：在飞行中驾驶或有资格驾驶飞机的人
Nautical
【航海】
One who, though not belonging to a ship`s company, is licensed to conduct a ship into and out of port or through dangerous waters.
导航员：虽不属于轮船的船员但有资格引导一艘轮船进出港或通过危险水域的人
The helmsman of a ship.
舵手：船上掌舵人
One who guides or directs a course of action for others.
领导人：领导或指导他人活动的人
The part of a tool, device, or machine that leads or guides the whole.
导杆、控制器：能牵引或领导整个工具、仪器或机器的那一部分
A pilot light, as in a stove.
母火，如煤气炉
A television program produced as a prototype of a series being considered for adoption by a network.
试播节目，前导节目：一种作为系列节目中的样本的电视节目，以便让某一网络采纳
v.tr.（及物动词）
pi.lot.ed,pi.lot.ing,pi.lots
To serve as the pilot of.
当引航员
To steer or control the course of.See Synonyms at guide
导引或控制进程参见 guide
adj.（形容词）
Serving as a tentative model for future experiment or development:
试验性的：为将来的试验或发展做尝试性范例的：
例句：
a pilot project.
试点项目

Serving or leading as guide.
带头的或引导的

来源：
Obsolete French [helmsman]
已废法语 [舵手]
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Old Italian pilota
源自 古意大利语 pilota
alteration of pedota
pedota的变化
probably from Medieval Greek *pôdôtôs
可能源自 中世纪希腊语 *pôdôtôs
from Greek pôdon [steering oar] * see ped-
源自 希腊语 pôdon [方向桨] *参见 ped-

<注释>The pilot of an aircraft flying through the air has a foot on the ground not literallybut etymologically.If we poke around in the etymological soil for the roots of the wordpilot, we find that it goes back to the Indo-European rootped-, meaning .foot.. From the lengthened-grade suffixed formpôdo- came the Greek word pôdon, .blade of an oar,. and in the plural, .rudder.. In Medieval Greekthere is assumed to have existed the derivativepôdôtôs, .steersman,. which passed into Old Italian and acquired several forms,includingpedota, and pilota, the form that was borrowed into Old French aspilot. English borrowed the word from French,and aspilot it has moved from the water to the air, first being recorded in 848 with reference to an airborne pilot—a balloonist.
飞行员一脚踩地飞进天空这句话字面上虽讲不通，但在词源上却可以。如果为找到pilot 的根源而溯其词源， 我们会发现它源自印欧语系词根ped- 意为.脚.。 从加长的这个词根的后缀形式pedo- 我们得到希腊词语 pedon .桨叶.及复数形式，.舵.。 在中世纪的希腊，据称曾存在派生词pedotes .舵手.， 该词进了古意大利语并添了一些形式，包括pedota 和 pilota ， 这些形式被法语借用过来，便成了pilot 。 英语又借自法语，随着pilot 从水上被移用到天上， 于848年第一次用来指天上飞行员——热气球驾驶员