Pioneer vs. Sapper

Pioneer and Sapper Definitions
Pioneer
One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.
Sapper
A military engineer who specializes in sapping and other field fortification activities.
Pioneer
One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development
A pioneer in aviation.
Sapper
A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines.
Pioneer
A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.
Sapper
Historical term for a combat engineer that is still used in some armies, in other words an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
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Pioneer
A species that is typically among the first to become established in a bare, open, or disturbed area.
Sapper
An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
Pioneer
Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers
The pioneer spirit.
Sapper
One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
Pioneer
Leading the way; trailblazing
A pioneer treatment for cancer.
Sapper
A military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
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Pioneer
To venture into (an area) or prepare (a way)
Rockets that pioneered outer space.
Sapper
A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
Pioneer
To settle (a region).
Pioneer
To initiate or participate in the development of
Surgeons who pioneered organ transplants.
Pioneer
To act as a pioneer
Pioneered in development of the laser.
Pioneer
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
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Pioneer
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
Pioneer
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
Pioneer
A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
Pioneer
(Communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.
Pioneer
(transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.
Pioneer
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
Pioneer
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
Pioneer
To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Pioneer
To take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.
Pioneer
Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
Pioneer
One the first colonists or settler in a new territory;
They went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them
Pioneer
Open up an area or prepare a way;
She pioneered a graduate program for women students
Pioneer
Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;
This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants
Pioneer
Open up and explore a new area;
Pioneer space