Pilot vs. Driver
Pilotnoun
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
Pilotnoun
A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
Pilotnoun
A guide book for maritime navigation.
Pilotnoun
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
Pilotnoun
A pilot vehicle.
Pilotnoun
A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
Pilotnoun
A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
Pilotnoun
Something serving as a test or trial.
Pilotnoun
(mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
Pilotnoun
(aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
Pilotnoun
(television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
Pilotnoun
(rail transport) A cowcatcher.
Pilotnoun
A pilot light.
Pilotnoun
One who flies a kite.
Pilotnoun
A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
Pilotadjective
Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
Pilotadjective
Used to control or activate another device.
Pilotadjective
Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
Pilotverb
(transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
Pilotverb
(transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
Pilotverb
(transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
Pilotnoun
One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
Pilotnoun
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.
Pilotnoun
Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
Pilotnoun
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
Pilotnoun
The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
Pilotnoun
One who flies, or is qualified to fly, an airplane, balloon, or other flying machine.
Pilotnoun
A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable.
Pilotnoun
The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
Pilotnoun
a filmed or taped episode of a proposed television series, produced as an example of the series. It may be shown only to those television broadcast executives who may decide whether to buy the rights to the series, or aired to test viewer reaction or to interest sponsors. Also called pilot film or pilot tape.
Pilotverb
To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
Pilotverb
Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Pilotverb
To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft); to operate (an airplane).
Pilotnoun
someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
Pilotnoun
a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
Pilotnoun
a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
Pilotnoun
an original model on which something is patterned
Pilotnoun
small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
Pilotnoun
an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
Pilotverb
fly a plane
Pilotverb
act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance;
Drivernoun
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
Drivernoun
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
Drivernoun
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
Drivernoun
A person who drives some other vehicle.
Drivernoun
(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
Drivernoun
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
Drivernoun
(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
Drivernoun
A mallet.
Drivernoun
A tamping iron.
Drivernoun
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
Drivernoun
A screwdriver.
Drivernoun
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
Drivernoun
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
Drivernoun
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
Drivernoun
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
Drivernoun
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
Drivernoun
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Drivernoun
An implement used for driving;
Drivernoun
the operator of a motor vehicle
Drivernoun
someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
Drivernoun
a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
Drivernoun
(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
Drivernoun
a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
