Pilot vs Rider - What's the difference?
pilot | rider |
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.)
one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
(politics) a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
(by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
* A. S. Hardy
an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements
A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights
(UK, archaic) An agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller.
(obsolete) One who breaks in or manages a horse.
(math) A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
* J. Fletcher
(mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
(shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
(nautical) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A robber.
As nouns the difference between pilot and rider
is that pilot is a person who steers a ship, a helmsman while rider is one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle.As an adjective pilot
is made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run, pilot plant.As a verb pilot
is to control (an aircraft or watercraft).As a proper noun Rider is
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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)rider
English
Noun
(en noun)- This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
- (Shakespeare)
- His mouldy money! half a dozen riders .
- (Totten)
- (Drummond)