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cockpit¹
- /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/ US
Where it comes from
Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.
noun cockpits
- A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures.
- A theater or other entertainment venue. But pardon, and gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that have dared / On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth / So great an object: can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?
- A site of conflict; a battlefield. Hungary is become the onely Cockpit of the World, where the Turkes doe strive to gain, and the Christians at the charge of the Emperor of Germany (who entituleth himselfe King of Hungary) doe labour to repulse them: and few summers do passe, but that something is either wonne or lost by either party
- The vagina. If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore.
- A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a ſtation in ſome glen, or, as it is called in the Weſt Indies, Cockpit, encloſed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile.
cockpit²
- /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/ US
Where it comes from
Either the same as above or from compound of cock (“boat”) + pit, where the first element is also found in cockboat and coxswain.
noun cockpits
- The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
- A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
- The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
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The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled.
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste
Similar: flight deck, office
- An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cab, carrier, gondola, bridge, steering, flying, pilot, piloting, pilotage, landing, deck, canopy, cabana, cabin, booth, array
Translations
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noun area from which the pilot controls an aircraft
| Español | cabina, carlinga |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 조종석 jojongseok |
| 日本語 | 操縦席 sōjūseki, コックピット kokkupitto |
| 中文 | 座艙 /座舱 zuòcāng, 駕駛艙 /驾驶舱 jiàshǐcāng |
| Kiswahili | dungu |
| Português | cabine de pilotagem |
| Français | cabine de pilotage, cockpit |
| Deutsch | Cockpit, Pilotenkanzel, Pilotenkabine, Flugzeugkanzel, Führungskanzel |
| Italiano | abitacolo, cabina di pilotaggio, cabina di comando |
| Ελληνικά | κόκπιτ kókpit, πιλοτήριο pilotírio |
| Română | carlingă, cabină de pilotaj |
| Русский | каби́на kabína |
| Tiếng Việt | buồng lái |
| עברית | תא־הטייס ta-ha't'aias, קוֹקְפִּיט kokpit |
noun nautical: well, where the helm is
| Italiano | pozzetto |
|---|---|
| עברית | קוֹקְפִּיט kokpit |
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title = {cockpit},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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