Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The occupation or service of a pilot.
- noun Nautical Coastal navigation, as by reference to buoys and soundings.
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- verb Present participle of
pilot . - noun the form of
navigation in whichposition is determined by relation toexternal reference points
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the occupation of a pilot
- noun the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
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Examples
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Expressing his optimism about the piloting, he added, Once this piloting is done, if the Government of Bangladesh allocates adequate budgets in the coming years, we could gradually cover the entire country, and all persons with disabilities could be brought under the national database.
Bangladesh surveys disabled people to build a country-wide database BA Haller 2008
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Designed with versatility in mind, the Donk can transport cargo or a crew of five internally or on the roof, and can be piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch, thanks to special one-way steel mesh armor windows and a control stick that pivots up and down to allow piloting from the standing or seated positions.
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If you wrote to Jet Blue yesterday to express your disappointment with the airline's unpatriotic cooperation with the Feds in piloting the CAPPS II spyware initiative, you probably got an official denial telling you that "No JetBlue customer information has been shared with the US Government with respect to testing the CAPPS II program currently under design."
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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Mac Bride played a dominant role in piloting this convention through to a successful conclusion.
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
unknown title 2009
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
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That's contrary to one of the fundamentals of commercial piloting, which is to keep attention focused on monitoring messages from controllers and watching flight displays in the cockpit.
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