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cockpit
[ kok-pit ]
noun
- a space, usually enclosed, in the forward fuselage of an airplane containing the flying controls, instrument panel, and seats for the pilot and copilot or flight crew.
- a sunken, open area, generally in the after part of a small vessel, as a yacht, providing space for the pilot, part or all of the crew, or guests.
- the space, including the seat and instrumentation, surrounding the driver of an automobile.
- a pit or enclosed place for cockfights.
- a place where a contest is fought or which has been the scene of many contests or battles.
- (formerly) a space below the water line in a warship, occupied by the quarters of the junior officers and used as a dressing station for those wounded in action.
cockpit
/ ˈkɒkˌpɪt /
noun
- the compartment in a small aircraft in which the pilot, crew, and sometimes the passengers sit Compare flight deck
- the driver's compartment in a racing car
- nautical
- an enclosed or recessed area towards the stern of a small vessel from which it is steered
- (formerly) an apartment in a warship used as quarters for junior officers and as a first-aid station during combat
- the site of numerous battles or campaigns
- an enclosure used for cockfights
Example Sentences
And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
I believe there was a captain aboard, but Hughes kept throwing him out of the cockpit.
He would navigate from the cockpit using a road atlas—while snorting cocaine off the map.
You will feel both embarrassed and grateful for this, even as you wonder why the cockpit looks like a 1950s sci-fi set.
Some airline chiefs believe that there was an invasion of the cockpit.
George, duke of Albemarle, captain-general of his majesty's forces, died at the cockpit.
The yacht nearly broached to, while the next oncoming wave broke fairly aboard, filling the cockpit half-full of water.
Then a wave would come aboard astern, rolling in and nearly filling the cockpit.
A very important fitting is a hatch by which the cockpit can be completely covered in in heavy weather.
The last occasion on which any part of Belgium, so long the 'Cockpit of Europe,' had a glimpse of war was in the autumn of 1870.
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