PILOTING
Dictionary entry overview: What does piloting mean?
• PILOTING (noun)
The noun PILOTING has 2 senses:
1. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
2. the occupation of a pilot
Familiarity information: PILOTING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PILOTING (noun)
Meaning:
The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
navigation; pilotage; piloting
Hypernyms ("piloting" is a kind of...):
direction; guidance; steering (the act of setting and holding a course)
Domain member category:
outpoint (sail closer to the wind than)
tack; wear round (turn into the wind)
wear ship (turn away from the wind)
ferry (travel by ferry)
ferry (transport by ferry)
ferry (transport from one place to another)
raft (transport on a raft)
rack; scud (run before a gale)
beat (sail with much tacking or with difficulty)
sail (travel in a boat propelled by wind)
yacht (travel in a yacht)
steam; steamer (travel by means of steam power)
boat (ride in a boat on water)
weather (sail to the windward of)
luff; point (sail close to the wind)
bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)
barge (transport by barge on a body of water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piloting"):
instrument flying (navigation of an airplane solely by instruments)
astronavigation; celestial navigation (navigating according to the positions of the stars)
dead reckoning (navigation without the aid of celestial observations)
Meaning:
The occupation of a pilot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pilotage; piloting
Hypernyms ("piloting" is a kind of...):
craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)
