n.[C]

1. （船舶的）领航员；舵手
   Mark Twain was once a river pilot on the Mississippi.

   马克·吐温曾当过密西西比河上的领航员。

2. （飞机等的）驾驶员，飞行员
   The flying school graduates a hundred pilots a year.

   这个飞行学校一年毕业一百名飞行员。

3. 向导；领导人
4. 【美】（机车等的）排障器
5. 【机】【电】导向器；指示灯
6. （广播或电视的）试播节目

a.[B]

1. 引导的；导向的
2. （小规模）试验性的，试点的
   This year we are trying a pilot scheme.

   今年我们正在尝试一项小规模实验性计划。

vt.

1. 给（船等）领航[（+on/in/over）]
   Your job is to pilot the ship into the harbor.

   你的工作是引导该船入港。

2. 驾驶（飞机等）
   When did you learn to pilot an airplane?

   你什么时候学会驾驶飞机的？

3. 带领；引导；使顺利通过[O][（+through）]
   He has piloted several bills through Congress.

   他已经使好几个议案在国会通过。

   He piloted the old lady to her seat.

   他引导这位老妇人入席。

n.

1. a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.
2. a person with expert local knowledge qualified to take charge of a ship entering or leaving a harbour.
   ▸archaic a guide or leader.
3. [often as modifier] something done or produced as an experiment or test before wider introduction:
   a pilot scheme.
4. Telecommunications  an unmodulated reference signal transmitted with another signal for the purposes of control or synchronization.

v.

1. act as a pilot of (an aircraft or ship).
   ▸guide; steer.
2. test (a scheme, project, etc.) before introducing it more widely.