(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.
Voyage
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
(n.) The act or practice of traveling.
(n.) Course; way.
(v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
(v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(3) The countdown has begun for Tim Peake’s exciting voyage into space .
(4) Possible mechanisms of changes developing in conditions of long-term voyage, especially the role of the state of the vegetative nervous system, and possibilities of prophylactic measures stimulating the weakening of dysfunctional disturbances are discussed.
(5) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
(6) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(7) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(8) China blasted off its Long March-7 new generation carrier rocket on a successful inaugural voyage on Saturday from a new launch centre, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space program.
(9) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
(10) The trip's leader, Huigen Yang, told Reuters this week that Chinese shipping companies, encouraged by the ship's success, may be planning a commercial voyage along the same route as soon as this summer.
(11) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(12) Just as important, legal channels must be created for refugees to claim asylum without undergoing deadly voyages across the sea or hidden in trucks.
(13) Shipowners have said it can save them €180,000-€300,000 on each voyage.
(14) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(15) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
(16) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(17) It took some 1500 years to double this number by the time of Columbus' voyage to America.
(18) Sorensen has sailed deep into ice at both poles for 30 years, but this voyage is different, he says.
(19) During their voyage, they traverse the three acinus zones, and since in each they produce different enzymes, each zone represents a differentiation state of the advancing cell.
(20) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.