Noun

(en noun)

A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.

(Dryden)

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, 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 .

Something serving as a test or trial.

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.

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:

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.

Noun

(en noun)

An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

(slang) Human arm.

Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.

One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

Passage by flying; flight.

to take wing

* Shakespeare

Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

* Shakespeare

Fiery expedition be my wing .

A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:

# (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.

# (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

(British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(Totten)

(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

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(botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.

(typography, informal, rare) =

* 1985 , David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary , page 378

? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )

One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.