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I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.
David Lange

Meaning of "pilot fish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PILOT FISH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILOT FISH

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Pilot fish is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PILOT FISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pilot fish

Pilot fish

The pilot fish is a carnivorous commensal fish in the family Carangidae. It is widely distributed and lives in warm or tropical open seas.

Definition of pilot fish in the English dictionary

The definition of pilot fish in the dictionary is a small carangid fish, Naucrates ductor, of tropical and subtropical seas, marked with dark vertical bands: often accompanies sharks and other large fishes. Other definition of pilot fish is any of various similar or related fishes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILOT FISH

pilot
pilot balloon
pilot bird
pilot biscuit
pilot boat
pilot cloth
pilot engine
pilot film
pilot house
pilot jacket
pilot lamp
pilot light
pilot officer
pilot plant
pilot production
pilot scheme
pilot study
pilot whale
pilotage
piloting

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILOT FISH

a fine kettle of fish
angler fish
big fish
bony fish
butterfly fish
cold fish
drink like a fish
fish
flowerhorn fish
flying fish
game fish
ice fish
kettle of fish
oily fish
red fish
river fish
scorpion fish
sea fish
Siamese fighting fish
wet fish
white fish

Synonyms and antonyms of pilot fish in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pilot fish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PILOT FISH

Find out the translation of pilot fish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pilot fish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pilot fish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

试验鱼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pez piloto
570 millions of speakers

English

pilot fish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पायलट मछली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السمك الطيار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пилот рыба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peixe piloto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাইলট মাছ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poisson-pilote
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ikan perintis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pilotfisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブリモドキ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파일럿 물고기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pilot iwak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cá thí điểm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பைலட் மீன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पायलट फिश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pilot balık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pesci pilota
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pilot ryby
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пілот риба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pește pilot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πιλοτική ψάρια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlieënier vis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pilot fisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pilotfisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pilot fish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILOT FISH»

The term «pilot fish» is normally little used and occupies the 120.277 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pilot fish

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QUOTES WITH «PILOT FISH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pilot fish.
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David Lange
I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILOT FISH»

Discover the use of pilot fish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pilot fish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Army and Navy Chronicle
The Pilot Fish. --There are few things more wonderful than the connection which exists between the Shark and the Pilot Fish. The shark, it is well known, is one of the most voracious monsters which are to be found in the depths of the ocean.
Benjamin Homans, 1836
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Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
That year the rich came led by the pilot fish. A year before they would neverhavecome. There wasnocertainty then.Theworkwas as good andthehappiness was greater butno novel had beenwritten, so they could not be sure. They never wasted ...
Ernest Hemingway, 2014
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Aquatic Life of the World: Iceberg-Manatee and dugong
PILOT FISH Another popular fish in the Carangidae family is the pilot fish, which is easily recognized by its five to seven distinctive dark vertical bars. It is an open- water fish, frequently seen in association with sharks, manta rays, turtles, sail ...
‎2001
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The British cyclopaedia of the arts, sciences, history, ...
some pure rays in the anterior part, and four rays also in front of the anal ; the sides of the tail with a keel, and the teeth numerous, but small. The pilot-fish is one which has been long celebrated. The Greeks, who were always ready to throw in ...
‎1838
5
The British Cyclopædia of Natural History: Combining a ...
The pilot fish is one which has been long celebrated. The Greeks, who were always ready to throw in a little embellishment upon the very slightest grounds, regarded it as a sacred fish, and one which was of essential service to doubtful ...
Charles Frederick Partington, 1837
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The british cyclopedia of natural history
The pilot fish is one which has been long celebrated. The Greeks, who were always ready to throw in a little embellishment upon the very slightest 'rounds, regarded it as a sacred fish, and one which «as of essential service to doubtful ...
Charles f. partington, 1837
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Motorboating - ND
F.B. CONV, 3l60 Cat Dsls, Air, Gen, Pilot, Fish Eqpt, Clean, Ask 79M, . F.B. CONV , 3208 Turbo Cats, Galley Up, 'h Tower, Radar. Loran, Pilot, 38' '73 HA'I'I'. DCFB, GM67lJT Dsls, Air, Gen, Pilot. Winch, Platform. Buy 98M. 38' '80 BERTRAM ...
8
Kon-Tiki
The pilot fish is a small cigar-shaped fish with zebra stripes, which swims rapidly in a shoal ahead of the shark's snout It received its name because it was thought that it piloted its half-blind friend the shark about in the sea. In reality, it simply ...
Thor Heyerdahl, 2013
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Sea and land
a with a large piece of park, the pilot-fish swam quickly to the bait, smelt of it and then returned to the shark, which had as yet failed to discover the morscl flung over to tempt him. Again and again the pilot swam to the bait and back again to his ...
J.W. Buel, 1887
10
Popular Science
other fishes to hunt it up for them, as we use pointers and setters, such as the little Pilot-fish, which leads the huge shark to his prey ; though this has been disputed, because the pilot-fish has been known to follow and play about a vessel just ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILOT FISH»

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Right idea, wrong beep
User calls this support pilot fish, complaining that his UPS needs a new battery. "He said it must need a battery because it kept beeping from ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
2
Now That The Four Seasons Is Closing, Where Will the Power …
That will be decided by the biggest of the big fish; the rest of us will follow, attaching like pilot fish. There will be no announcement, only rumors ... «Town and Country Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Tour de France 2015: Lanterne Rouge - stage 18
Mark Rensaw, pilot fish to Mark Cavendish, did not start stage 18, though the impact of his absence is unlikely to be felt for a further three days, ... «Rouleur, Jul 15»
4
2 plus 2? 4 (or maybe 5 for large values of 2?)
Pilot fish moves into a subdivision that has a homeowners' association -- and when word gets around that he's a tech, his new neighbors have ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
5
Cleanliness is actually next to sabotage, it seems
Trouble ticket comes in to the on-site tech pilot fish at this small regional university: Students can't log in on some of the iMac computers in a ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
6
Notepad, WordPad, iPad -- a pad's a pad, right?
Analyst calls this IT pilot fish with a service request: He wants some "programming" and an explanation of "how an email is made." "The request ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
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IT Rule #17: Any computer is ALWAYS about to break
Among this pilot fish's responsibilities is handling complaints about how the rest of the IT staff is handling complaints. "A laptop user wrote that ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
8
A lament for modern publishing
In a shrinking pool where big sharks are sniffing for bestseller blood, where agents act like pilot fish, cleaning the teeth of publishing objectives, ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
9
Because, hey, what could possibly go wrong?
... her camera while she's on vacation -- and decides to "borrow" the ones that are most conveniently available, reports a pilot fish on the scene. «Computerworld, Jul 15»
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Tour de France 2015: Lanterne Rouge - stage 15
Here was Cavendish's pilot fish, Mark Renshaw, and, more surprisingly, Greipel's right-hand man, Marcel Sieberg. The presence of sprinters ... «Rouleur, Jul 15»

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