different between pilot vs queep

English

Etymology

From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *??????? (*p?d?t?s, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek ????? (p?dón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa?l?t/
• Rhymes: -a?l?t

Noun

pilot (plural pilots)

1. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
   • 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil, The Aeneid Book One

     They scud before the wind, and sail in open sea.
     Ahead of all the master pilot steers;
     And, as he leads, the following navy veers.

2. 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.
3. A guide book for maritime navigation.
4. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
5. (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
6. (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
7. A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, E. L. Cary and A. Hart, page 43:

     So we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots.

8. Something serving as a test or trial.
   1. (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
9. (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
10. (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.
11. (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
12. A pilot light.
13. One who flies a kite.
14. A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pilot (not comparable)

1. Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.

   a pilot run of the new factory

   The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.

2. Used to control or activate another device.

   a pilot light

3. Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.

   a pilot vehicle

Translations

Verb

pilot (third-person singular simple present pilots, present participle piloting, simple past and past participle piloted)

1. (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
2. (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
3. (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
4. (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.

Translations

References

• pilot at OneLook Dictionary Search
• pilot in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• potli, ptilo-, topil

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /pi?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

pilot (feminine pilota, masculine plural pilots, feminine plural pilotes)

1. pilot

Noun

pilot m (plural pilots)

1. pilot
2. driver
3. light, warning light

Derived terms

• copilot

Further reading

• “pilot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pilot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pilot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pilot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

pilot m

1. pilot (controller of aircraft)

Declension

Derived terms

• pilotní
• pilotovat

Further reading

• pilot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pilot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

pilot c (singular definite piloten, plural indefinite piloter)

1. pilot

Declension

References

• “pilot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latvian

Noun

pilot

1. vocative singular form of pilots

Verb

pilot

1. present conjunctive form of pil?t
2. (with the particle lai) imperative conjunctive form of pil?t

Participle

pilot (invariable)

1. adverbial present active participle of pil?t (invariable form)

Middle French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pilot m (plural pilots)

1. stake (pole designed to be pushed into the ground)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French pilote

Noun

pilot m (definite singular piloten, indefinite plural piloter, definite plural pilotene)

1. pilot (controller of an aircraft)

Synonyms

• flyger

Derived terms

• autopilot
• pilotprosjekt

References

• “pilot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French pilote

Noun

pilot m (definite singular piloten, indefinite plural pilotar, definite plural pilotane)

1. pilot (controller of an aircraft)

Derived terms

• autopilot
• pilotprosjekt

References

• “pilot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i.l?t/

Noun

pilot m pers

1. pilot (controller of aircraft)

Declension

Noun

pilot m inan

1. remote control

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pilote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?lot/

Noun

pilot m (plural pilo?i)

1. pilot

Declension

Related terms

• aeroport
• avion
• a pilota

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Interjection

queep

1. The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.
   • 1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California

     In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep, queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .
2. The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.

Verb

queep (third-person singular simple present queeps, present participle queeping, simple past and past participle queeped)

1. To emit a "queep" sound.

   • She started to speak, but the peek queeped, and she studded it on.

   • The computer queeped softly and then said, “Ship's systems ....”

   • “This used to be where the contractors kept their heavy equipment,” Lester rumbled, aiming a car door remote at the door, which queeped and opened.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

queep (uncountable)

1. (military, slang, US) Non-flying duties, typically paperwork, that are undesirable to pilots.

   Why in the hell isn’t there someone else to do all this queep?!

   • It isn't how well you fly, it's who you know and how well you perform your queep ground job.

   • Still, the above is a true reflection of statistical promotion rates in the context of our current queep-biased system.

   • What fighter pilots do is fly, and that they love, they have little love or tolerance for queep, a term for all paperwork and related jobs that keep a pilot out of the cockpit.

   • Besides, if you're not flying, your whole world is going to consist of nothing but office queep.

   • The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds. We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.

Usage notes

Commonly used in the United States Air Force flying community.

Etymology 3

Short for "quad-sweep", a rowing boat/event.

Noun

queep (uncountable)

1. A rowing event, with two scullers and two sweepers per shell.