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# pilot

«pilot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who flies a plane or helicopter** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#m1)

2) A person who guides big ships into a harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#m2)

3) (verb) To pilot is to fly or steer something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#m3)

4) A pilot test or project is a small first try to see if something works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#m4)

5) On a long sea voyage, the pilot is the sailor who works out which way the ship should go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x1)
- She wants to be a pilot when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x2)
- The pilot told us to fasten our seat belts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x3)
- A pilot boat guided the ship into the port. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x4)
- He piloted the helicopter to the hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x5)
- The school is running a pilot of the new reading app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x6)
- I was on autopilot and walked the wrong way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x7)
- Jason was appointed commander-in-chief of the expedition, Tiphys acted as steersman, Lynceus as pilot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/5/)
- [Pilots learn real skills in simulators, and you learn real language and reasoning in your lessons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/16/)
- ["The pilot terrified" hides the animal OTTER across "pilot" and "terrified".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/9/)
- [Children may sometimes visit a plane's cockpit, but only trained pilots fly the plane.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/23/)
- [In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pilot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pilot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.