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Pilot

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

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Verb group 2

Fly 84% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Fly 84% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Broader term 24

Aeronaut 76% connected

An aerial navigator; a balloonist.

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Aviator 76% connected

An experimenter in aviation.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Flier 76% connected

One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.

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Flyer 76% connected

One that uses wings.

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Framework 76% connected

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

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Gob 76% connected

Same as Goaf.

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Guide 76% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Jack 76% connected

A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves en…

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Maneuver 76% connected

Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Manoeuvre 76% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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Mariner 76% connected

One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Sea dog 76% connected

The dogfish.

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Seafarer 76% connected

One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

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Seaman 76% connected

A merman; the male of the mermaid.

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Steer 76% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Tar 76% connected

A sailor; a seaman.

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Manner of action 5

Balloon 76% connected

A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one wi…

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Glide 76% connected

The glede or kite.

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Soar 76% connected

To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

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Solo 76% connected

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

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Narrower term 1

Captain 76% connected

A head, or chief officer

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Derivationally related 4

Pilotage 74% connected

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

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Pilotage 74% connected

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

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Entails 2

Fly 72% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Wing 72% connected

One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…

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Containing whole 2

Engine 70% connected

(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

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Locomotive 70% connected

Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

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Synonym 6

Archetype 92% connected

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

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Buffer 92% connected

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

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Fender 92% connected

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fly 92% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Navigate 92% connected

To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or commu…

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Original 92% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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