Pioneer : (특정 지식문화 부문의)개척자, 선구자, (거친땅/황무지를 일구는) 개척자, 개척하다
pioneering : 개척적인, 선구적인
1)
a pioneer is somebody who goes first, who goes before anybody
particularly somebody who goes into the wilderness into wild, uncharted lands
a person who prepares for other people to follow
in the U.S., a pioneer nornally referes to a settler, simbody who migranted to our uninhabited lands
the people who migrated west and started settling the west
2)
but we very often use this word pioneer, to talk about sombody who opens up new areas of thought
new areas of research, new areas of development
Charles Baggage was a pioneer in the world of computing
a pioneers of radioactivity
he is a pioneering brain surgenon
he is pioneering a new technique
he is the first to apply a new method or one of the first to develop a new method
to pioneer a technique
a pioneer in heart surgery
he pioneered the study of this organic chemical
the technique was pioneered by him
a settler, a pioneer, an explorer, a colonist, a colonizer
they are the first people to go
an innovator, a developer
to go and colonize new places
to go boldly, to go where no man has gone before
he is the one of the pioneering fathers of this technique
3)
In a military sense, although it's a bit obsolete
you can have the pioneer core, these are effectively the engineers the make roads and they dig trenches and they make bridges
I think nowadays you'd call this person a sapper
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