Piloting Synonyms, Piloting Antonyms

Synonyms for piloting

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noun. traveling, guiding along route, often over water

Word Origin & History

1510s, "one who steers a ship," from Middle French pillote (16c.), from Italian piloto, supposed to be an alteration of Old Italian pedoto, which usually is said to be from Medieval Greek *pedotes "rudder, helmsman," from Greek pedon "steering oar," related to pous (genitive podos) "foot" (see foot (n.)). Change of -d- to -l- in Latin ("Sabine -l-") parallels that in odor/olfactory; see lachrymose.

Sense extended 1848 to "one who controls a balloon," and 1907 to "one who flies an airplane." As an adjective, 1788 as "pertaining to a pilot;" from 1928 as "serving as a prototype." Thus the noun pilot meaning "pilot episode" (etc.), attested from 1962. Pilot light is from 1890.

Example Sentences for piloting

That must be it—I was piloting a rocket and cracked up somewhere on Mars.

The inventor was piloting his ship with ceaseless concentration.

Dick, holding the light, was piloting Greg through the tunnel.

So Barny got himself paid for piloting the ship that showed him the way home.

It won't be many years before half of them will be piloting aircars.

Then this man is now piloting the Islander through this channel?

It was a detail in piloting that had never occurred to me at all.

He shrugged and turned his attention to his piloting of the borrowed helicopter.

Marcel was piloting them to a hunting ground of his own, and this passage was the highway to it.

I have been piloting for about three years now and I'm almost twenty.

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