Pilot vs Plot - What's the difference?
pilot | plot |
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
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.
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
(AU, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
(AU, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
* 1834 , , A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett , E. L. Cary and A. Hart,
Something serving as a test or trial.
A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
A sample episode of a proposed TV series
(rail transport) A cowcatcher.
A pilot light.
One who flies a kite.
* 2003 , John P. Glaser, A Father's Collage , page 31:
Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run'', ''pilot plant )
Used to control or activate another device. (pilot light)
A vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination. (pilot vehicle )
Used to indicate operation ("pilot lamp")
To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
In transitive terms the difference between pilot and plot
is that pilot is to test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc. while plot is to mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).As an adjective pilot
is made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run, pilot plant.pilot
English
(wikipedia pilot)Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
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- So we mounted our horses, and put out for that town, under the direction of two friendly Creeks we had taken for pilots .
- We would like to run a pilot in your facility before rolling out the program city-wide.
- The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.
- Julia has become quite a good kite pilot . She has learned how to repeatedly buzz her father's head, coming within two feet, and not hitting him.
Derived terms
* autopilot * bush pilot * copilot * hangar pilot * Palm Pilot * pilot fish * pilot whale * test pilotAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* pilot experiment * pilot hole * pilot light * pilot versionVerb
(en verb)plot
English
Noun
(en noun)- If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.