What's the difference between passenger and pillion?

Passenger


Definition:

  • (n.) A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
  • (n.) A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
  • (3) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (4) The plans would eventually double the numbers of passengers at the Sussex airport, which believes its current capacity to grow from 34 million to 45 million with a single runway will see it through until the mid-2020s.
  • (5) Vehicles were stopped and their passengers made to disembark while sniffer dogs went on board.
  • (6) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
  • (7) Have a holistic approach to transport planning Walking and cycling is never going to be a major mode for our passengers in Gatwick airport.
  • (8) The airport drafted in extra staff to help passengers.
  • (9) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
  • (10) They mean that a passenger arriving at Dublin airport could face the same digital checks as any arriving at Heathrow.
  • (11) The CAA can help passengers bringing complaints against airlines or airports, although it stressed that passengers should first contact airlines to give them an opportunity to consider their claim before getting the authority involved.
  • (12) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (13) It is only going to cause more disruption and misery for passengers.
  • (14) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (15) The train operator advised passengers to use alternative routes with South West Trains and Chiltern Trains and has offered refunds to travellers who decide not to travel on Saturday.
  • (16) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
  • (17) Mortality levels of 100% for Culex quinquefasciatus and Musca domestica test insects were recorded under normal operating conditions during routine scheduled passenger flights with disinsection procedures undertaken at "blocks-away" or at "top-of-descent".
  • (18) Delta Air Lines said it was no longer sending flights through Ukrainian airspace after the crash of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
  • (19) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (20) Denominators (base population) were obtained from monitoring a random sample of returning British travellers with the international passenger survey.

Pillion


Definition:

  • (n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
  • (2) The pillion passenger got off and repeatedly stabbed Appleton in front of startled children.
  • (3) Of the fatalities 30 were operators of the motorcycle, 11 pillion passengers and 8 counterparts.
  • (4) They involved cyclists (38.3%), pillion passengers on cycles (1.9%), pedestrians (29.3%), motorcar drivers (7.8%), motorcar passengers (3.6%), passengers entering or leaving a vehicle (7.3%), mopedists (6.8%), motorcyclists (3.5%), and "others" (1.6%).
  • (5) These data are consistent with the concept previously proposed (Pillion, D.J., and Czech, M.P.
  • (6) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
  • (7) The results advocate that the law should restrict alcohol consumption by pillion passengers as well as by the motorcycle operator.
  • (8) In simultaneous and identical attacks, two motorcycles pulled alongside two cars in different parts of Tehran, the pillion passenger clamped a magnetic bomb to the door next to their intended victim and sped away.
  • (9) Riding pillion on their Aprilla scooters, their faces covered with silver and black crash helmets, the two teenagers screech to a halt outside an electronics shop.
  • (10) Straight-backed women carry goods to trade on their heads as they have always done, children shout with laughter under a water tap, men talk on street corners and motorcycles with paying pillion passengers weave between the honking cars.
  • (11) The pillion passenger stuck a charge to the door next to the chemist, which detonated as the motorcyclist drove off.
  • (12) Fifty-two per cent could ride a motorcycle, a further 13% intended to learn, 22% had driven on-road, and 60% had ridden as pillion passengers on-road.
  • (13) At one point, we manage to hitch a pillion ride on a motorbike ridden by another player, generating some excellent driving-and-shooting action – thoroughly satisfying until the driver took us way off course.
  • (14) The motorcycle with the pillion passenger, the magnetic bomb and the lifeless body left in the car.
  • (15) Furthermore a limitation in the right to carry a pillion passenger should be considered, and the operator of the motorcycle carrying a pillion passenger should be held responsible for the passenger wearing a helmet.
  • (16) In all cases where a pillion passenger was killed, the operator of the motorcycle had a BAC greater than 0.08%.
  • (17) Chibok lay at the end of the dust road, and over the next 10 days, she rode a motorbike pillion across its 10 wards, trying to persuade one family in each district to accept a scholarship for their traumatised daughter.
  • (18) Significantly more males than females were riders (P less than 0.001) and had ridden as pillion passengers (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) "They come into the City from north London at night down the backways and alleys to avoid CCTV cameras, they operate between 12 and 2am and ride pillion," said Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jack, of the City of London police.
  • (20) 63.6% (21 cases) were due to road traffic accidents of whom 33% (11 cases) were motorcyclists or pillion riders and 30.3% (10 cases) were drivers or passengers of four wheel vehicles such as cars and vans.