Pilotage is an English word with synonyms like piloting or navigation. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pilotage in a sentence
Pilotage meaning
- The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.
- The occupation of a pilot.
- The fee paid to a pilot who guides a ship to its anchorage (a roadstead or wharf) or to its outbound channel.
Using Pilotage
- The main meaning on this page is: The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination. | The occupation of a pilot. | The fee paid to a pilot who guides a ship to its anchorage (a roadstead or wharf) or to its outbound channel.
- Useful related words include: piloting, navigation, steering, guidance.
- In the example corpus, pilotage often appears in combinations such as: de pilotage.
Context around Pilotage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pilotage
- In this selection, "pilotage" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, marine, service and pilots stand out and add context to how "pilotage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ecole de pilotage pilots school and helicopter marine pilotage service. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pilotage" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pilotage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1983 six Aero L-29 jet trainers were delivered to form an Ecole de Pilotage (pilots school). (18 words)
South Africa is understood to be one of only three countries in the world that offer the unique Helicopter Marine Pilotage Service. (22 words)
Pilotage is important because of the constant changes in the navigable channel resulting from the large tidal range, which can exceed convert on spring tides. (25 words)
Pilotage is important because of the constant changes in the navigable channel resulting from the large tidal range, which can exceed convert on spring tides. (25 words)
South Africa is understood to be one of only three countries in the world that offer the unique Helicopter Marine Pilotage Service. (22 words)
In 1983 six Aero L-29 jet trainers were delivered to form an Ecole de Pilotage (pilots school). (18 words)
Example sentences (3)
South Africa is understood to be one of only three countries in the world that offer the unique Helicopter Marine Pilotage Service.
In 1983 six Aero L-29 jet trainers were delivered to form an Ecole de Pilotage (pilots school).
Pilotage is important because of the constant changes in the navigable channel resulting from the large tidal range, which can exceed convert on spring tides.
Common combinations with pilotage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- de pilotage 2×