(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.
Vanguard
Definition:
(n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Example Sentences:
(1) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(2) The trust drew up a contract with Vanguard to treat 400 patients.
(3) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
(4) For example, Vanguard is majority owned by MML Capital.
(5) The spokesman said Scottish Power was at the vanguard of developing wind power - it has 12 windfarms in the UK - and other renewable sources of power, but added: "At the same time, we are going to need coal and gas to support that."
(6) So too were Shia militias, which have often been at the vanguard of the fight against Isis elsewhere in the country, especially in Diyala province, between Baghdad and Kirkuk.
(7) Was it patient waiting lists or patient care at the forefront of their minds when the senior Musgrove management team penned the contract with Vanguard?” Laurence Vick, a lawyer representing some of the patients affected, said many concerns remained.
(8) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
(9) Indeed, far from being irrelevant, school nurses are the vanguard in the fight against drug use, teen pregnancy and child abuse.
(10) Using a commercially available analyzer (Vanguard XR70) we confirmed intra- and interobserver reproducibilities in 34 narrowings in 9 patients.
(11) Cameron said that the vanguard communities, each to be given a team of civil servants, will be the "training grounds" of the 'big society'.
(12) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.
(13) Hezbollah is also believed to be at the vanguard of an offensive in the Qalamoun mountains just east of the Syrian border, which looms as a strategic battleground in the overall fight for control of the country.
(14) AstraZeneca's second-largest shareholder, Vanguard, is a "passive" investor that holds a 4.74% stake through index funds that it manages.
(15) Since that time, women from the higher social groups have comprised the vanguard of the movement back to breastfeeding.
(16) What feels different now is that who’s at the forefront of the conversation is no longer the old vanguard of primarily cisgender, heterosexual black men,” Cullors told me.
(17) Small quantities of glioma associated antibodies probably circulate within the patient's serum but there is definite evidence of depression of the cell-mediated vanguard of the immune response.
(18) Photograph: Reuters She is principally a reporter for Vanguard, an international current affairs show, and covered stories in countries including Mexico, Vietnam and China.
(19) The lives of the Vanguard submarines will be prolonged to fill the gap.
(20) A group can act as political vanguard and proceed in a more expeditious way to reach new common objectives, such as defence, economic security, combating inequalities and support to the young people.” Gozi added that it would be easier for the EU to pursue such reforms following Britain’s decision to leave.