(n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
(n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.
(n.) The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
(v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(2) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(3) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(4) Network #5 conducted a pilot study of state survey results to profile data for Medical Review Board (MRB) analysis and to identify potential areas where educational activities could be focused.
(5) The evaluation of the data of unknown test persons of a pilot study in 96% resulted in a correct classification in patients with heart and circulatory diseases or persons with healthy heart and circulation, the classification in the above mentioned groups of diagnosis was performed on an average to 57%.
(6) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.
(7) These pilot studies confirm the efficacy of sequential half body irradiations in systemic tumor therapy.
(8) Pilot studies had shown that the activity of rT3 5'MDH is markedly (greater than or equal to 85%) inhibited in the presence of 2 M NaCl, while the rT3 5'MDL is essentially unaffected, and both low and high Km T4 5'MD are minimally (approximately 20%) inhibited.
(9) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(10) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(11) The effect of thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) on modified neuroleptanesthesia with fentanyl-flunitrazepam was investigated in an open pilot study of 15 neurosurgical patients.
(12) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
(13) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(14) This pilot research, supports the application of a classical conditioning model to human alcohol problems.
(15) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
(16) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
(17) In a pilot study previously reported, we showed that individual nerves could be traced in the different layers of the gut in Hirschsprung's disease (HD) using wholemount immunohistochemistry (WI).
(18) The group included 520 pilots, of whom 268 were receiving drug therapy.
(19) It is stressed that this was a pilot investigation, and that there is a need for better reporting and further research.
(20) Firearms officers will test the cameras in their training environment in Gravesend, Kent, with a view to wearing them on duty if the pilot is a success.
Piot
Definition:
(n.) The magpie.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week : “What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.” Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose volunteer doctors had begun to treat Ebola cases as soon as the outbreak was officially diagnosed in March – three months after the first case – had warned WHO in strong terms that this outbreak was different from previous ones.
(2) While in the past Ebola outbreaks have been self-limiting, this outbreak may be different, argues Peter Piot.
(3) What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees,” said Piot.
(4) They clearly underestimated the situation, partly because the African office dropped the ball, partly because member states, including the UK, cut [the] WHO’s budget for emergencies and haemorrhagic fevers (as proposed by WHO management),” said Piot.
(5) It was there that Peter Piot, currently director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but then a young infectious disease expert, first encountered the virus and together with colleagues decided to name it after a river that flowed through the district.
(6) There is a particular need for trained nurses, clinicians, diagnostic laboratory technicians and sanitation experts, Piot told the school.
(7) In 1976 a thermos of blood from a Flemish nun who had died in Zaire arrived at the Antwerp lab where Peter Piot, the great microbiologist , was training.
(8) WHO's latest figures put the death toll at 1,552, almost as many as the combined death toll of the 26 outbreaks since Piot's discovery 48 years ago and has warned that the current spread could affect 20,000 before it is contained.
(9) We already have a lost year of schooling, of economic growth, and of lost confidence so we must not be rose-tinted about the challenge over the next decade.” Fighting Ebola requires a culture change in the west, as well as west Africa | Peter Piot and David Miliband Read more Despite a clear trend of declining Ebola cases, a 15 April deadline for eradicating the disease set by regional leaders is considered optimistic by many in the development community.
(10) If that happens, the region could be a reservoir for the spread of the virus, not only to other parts of Africa, but also the rest of the world, said Piot and Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, in the New England Journal .
(11) First of all, nobody expected Ebola to pop up in west Africa – you only find what you are looking for,” said Prof Peter Piot, head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
(12) Prof Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who chaired the panel, said: “We need to strengthen core capacities in all countries to detect, report and respond rapidly to small outbreaks, in order to prevent them from becoming large-scale emergencies.
(13) Later that year Piot travelled to Zaire where he played a key role in containing the Ebola outbreak that killed 280 of the 318 people it infected.
(14) And Peter Piot, a microbiologist famous for discovering Ebola in the 1970s, stated recently that the reuse of syringes in west African hospitals was a major cause of the spread of the virus at the tail end of last year.
(15) A similar appeal at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by its director, Professor Peter Piot, has resulted in 35 staff volunteering so far.
(16) Prof Peter Piot, now director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "This well designed trial in non-human primates provides the most convincing evidence to date that ZMapp may be an effective treatment of Ebola infection in humans.
(17) Societies that were being rebuilt after civil war have been devastated by Ebola and will need rebuilding once the epidemic is finally under control, said Piot, who believes the World Health Organisation has been too slow to respond.