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1. Pioneer
   The USS Pioneer was an American Auk Class minesweeper of 890 tons displacement launched in 1942. The USS Pioneer was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 18 knots and carried a complement of 105. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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2. Pioneer
   [locomotive] Pioneer is the name of the first railroad locomotive to operate in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1837 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Utica and Schenectady Railroad (U&S) in New York, then purchased used by William B. Ogden for the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&C...
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3. Pioneer
   [train] The Pioneer was a passenger train run by Amtrak from Seattle, Washington to Chicago, Illinois via Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, Denver, Colorado and other intermediate points. == History == The Pioneer began service in June 1977, initially operating as a Seatt...
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4. pioneer
   [Noun] Someone who is the first to be involved or develop something new.
   Example: Dr. Christian Barnard was a pioneer in heart transplant surgery.
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5. pioneer
   [n] - someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art 2. [n] - one the first colonists or settler in a new territory 3. [v] - open up an area or prepare a way
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6. Pioneer
   The first stage in a succession. A pioneer species is one which establishes early on in the colonisation of a new area.
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7. Pioneer
   Series of tractor, full-track, artillery [SU], Series of UAV, Pioneer UAV, Inc [US]
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8. pioneer
   a) a plant capable of invading bare sites, e.g. newly exposed soil, and persisting there or colonising them, until supplanted by successional species; b) by extension, any new arrival in the early stages of succession, with particular reference to certain species whose presence appears to promote th...
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9. Pioneer
   Pi`o·neer' noun [ French pionier , orig., a foot soldier, Old French peonier , from Old French peon a foot soldier, French pion . See Pawn in chess.] 1. (Mil.) A soldier detailed or employed to form ro...
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10. Pioneer
    Pi`o·neer' transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Pioneered ; present participle & verbal noun Pioneering .] To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
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11. pioneer
    noun one the first colonists or settler in a new territory; `they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them`
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12. pioneer
    a person who is one of the first to enter and live in an area
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13. Pioneer
    • (v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer. • (n.) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform. • (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenche...
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14. pioneer
    (from the article `myth`) ...and preserves `the American way,` is a notable image embodying modern Americans` confidence in the moral values that their culture espouses. Not ...
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15. Pioneer
    (from the article `submarine`) ...methods to overcome the Union Navy`s superior strength, exerted in a blockade of Southern ports. In 1862 Horace L. Hunley of Mobile, Ala., ...
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16. Pioneer
    any of the first series of unmanned U.S. space probes designed chiefly for interplanetary study. Whereas the first five Pioneers (0–4) were intended ... [7 related articles]
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17. pioneer
    pioneer 1. A person or group that is the first to do something or that leads in developing something new. 2. A person who is one of the first from another country or region to explore or settle a new area. 3. A foot soldier whose duties include going ahead of the main company to construct things t...
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18. Pioneer
    Pioneer is a cultivated variety of potato.
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19. PIONEER
    A plamsa screen manufacturer. Pioneer owns its own plasma screen glass plant and produces most all boards and chips internalized in the plasma monitor. They make all of their own equipment, save for the 4030 and 5030 HD multimedia box, which is made by Sharp.
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20. Pioneer
    A diverse series of NASA spacecraft designed for lunar and interplanetary exploration. The first few to be launched were either total or partial failures, although Pioneer 3 did send back data leading to the discovery of the outer of the Van Allen Belts. Pioneer 5 returned important data on solar fl...
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21. Pioneer
    [submarine] Pioneer was the first of three submarines privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock and Baxter Watson. Hunley, McClintock and Watson built Pioneer in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pioneer was tested in February 1862 in the Mississippi River, and was lat...
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22. Pioneer
    [military] A pioneer (ɪər) is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper. Pioneers were originally part of the artillery branch of European armies. Subsequently, they formed part of the engineering branch, in the logistic br...
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23. Pioneer
    [schooner] Pioneer is a restored nineteenth century schooner sailing out of South Street Seaport in New York, New York. ==History== Pioneer was built in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1885 as a cargo sloop. She was the first of only two American cargo sloops ever built with a wrought iron hull...
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24. Pioneer
    [disambiguation] == See also == ...
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25. Pioneer
    [1862] Pioneer was a 19th century paddle-steamer gunboat used in New Zealand. Built in Sydney to the order of the New Zealand colonial government by the Australian Steam Navigation Company, she cost 9,500 pounds. Launched in 1863, she was towed across the Tasman Sea by HMS Eclipse, leaving S...
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