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pioneering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pioneering \Pi`o*neer"ing\, a. groundbreaking; originating; -- of efforts that begin work in a field or on a topic not previously widely known.
Pioneer \Pi`o*neer"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pioneered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pioneering.]
To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
to take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.
Wiktionary
Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques. n. 1 (non-gloss definition: The activity of the verb '''pioneer'''.) 2 A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots. v
(present participle of pioneer English)
Wikipedia
In the Scout Movement, pioneering is the art of using ropes and wooden spars joined by lashings and knots to create a structure. Pioneering can be used for constructing small items such as camp gadgets up to larger structures such as bridges and towers. These may be recreational, decorative, or functional.
Pioneering is used to teach practical skills, teamwork and problem solving. It is widely used in Scouting and Girl Guiding. Many Scout and Guide groups train their members in pioneering skills and construct projects, both small and large. In camp, Scouts may construct functional items like tables, camp dressers and gadgets, as well as decorative camp gateways. Pioneering is a common merit badge in many countries, and was required for the Eagle Scout rank in the 1920s and 1930s.
The name comes from the 18th and 19th century military engineers who went ahead of an army to " pioneer" a route, which could involve building bridges and towers with rope and timber (for example the Royal Pioneer Corps).
Pioneering skills include knot tying (tying ropes together), lashing (tying spars together with rope), whipping (binding the end of a rope with thin twine), splicing (joining or binding the end of a rope using its own fibres), and skills related to the use, care and storage of ropes, spars and related pioneering equipment.
A pioneer is a volunteer Bahá'í who leaves his or her home to journey to another place (often another country) for the purpose of teaching the Bahá'í Faith. The act of so moving is termed pioneering. Bahá'ís refrain from using the term "missionary". The first pioneer to enter a country or region mentioned in `Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan is given the title of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh.
During the Ten Year Crusade which ran from 1953 to 1963, hundreds of pioneers settled in countries and territories throughout the world, which eventually led to the establishment of 44 new National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies and the increase in the Bahá'í population.
Usage examples of "pioneering".
Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kelvin, Clausius this great unified and holistic worldview began to fall apart, and fall apart in ways, it is clear, that none of these pioneering scientists themselves either foresaw or intended.
There are only four required ones that are terribly different: camping, Mooncraft, pathfinding, and pioneering.
His father had been a pastor while Hank was growing up, and the two of them had lived through a great many glories and hassles, the kind that come with pioneering churches, pastoring, itinerating.
In How to Know God, Deepak continues his pioneering outreach, showing that God consciousness unfolds in a series of stages, each important and remarkable in itself, yet each getting closer to Source.
All that to him became more difficult to remember during the following days, because Katherine Cahill had the same determination of his pioneering ancestors that they crossed continent means to settle down in oil earth.
Thus, these pioneering natural philosophers looked to science to be the final arbiter to help settle theological controversies.
The postmodern poststructuralists confuse their own aperspectival madness with literary and political critique, following, I presume, the pioneering insanity of Bataille.
When that happens, Celia, you can take heart that Felding-Roth was in there, pioneering.
But with the rise of modern scienceassociated particularly with the names of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kelvin, Clausius this great unified and holistic worldview began to fall apart, and fall apart in ways, it is clear, that none of these pioneering scientists themselves either foresaw or intended.
Another way to put this is to say that, with this first major differentiation (or first major "fulcrum of development," as researchers call it), Blanck and Blanck introduced the term fulcrum of development to refer to the separation-individuation of the infant's self from the emotional (m)other, based especially on the pioneering work of Margaret Mahler.
The other was the man whose pioneering work in biotechnological cementation made it possible to build homes out of desert sand and exhausted soil that were literally dirt cheap, thus giving shelter to millions, but you probably think that the good he did was canceled out by the enormity of the fortune that flowed from the generations of patents generated and managed by his sons-my uncles.
If ever the business of arcade games knew pioneering days, it was during those years when entrepreneurs like his father introduced the latest innovations to their public, though what exact good this did -- societally speaking -- is difficult to say.
The government seems more interested in developing technology to turn us into permanent couch potatoes, then in pioneering a real frontier.
Minerva, it was lucky for me, lucky for Dora, that I was on my sixth pioneering venture and that I had planned how to load spaceships many years before I ever loaded a covered wagon-for the principles are the same.
The time of pioneering was over, galactically, and it seemed that the ultimate in civilization had been attained.