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cock·pit

(kŏk′pĭt′)

a. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot, copilot, and sometimes passengers.

b. The space set apart for the pilot and crew, as in a helicopter, large airliner, or transport aircraft.

2. The driver's compartment in a racing car.

3. A pit or enclosed area for cockfights.

4. A place where many battles have been fought.

5. Nautical

a. A compartment in an old warship below the water line, used as quarters for junior officers and as a station for the wounded during a battle.

b. An area in a small decked vessel toward the stern, lower than the rest of the deck, from which the vessel is steered.

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cockpit

(ˈkɒkˌpɪt)

1. (Aeronautics) the compartment in a small aircraft in which the pilot, crew, and sometimes the passengers sit. Compare flight deck¹

2. (Motor Racing) the driver's compartment in a racing car

3. (Nautical Terms) nautical

a. an enclosed or recessed area towards the stern of a small vessel from which it is steered

b. (formerly) an apartment in a warship used as quarters for junior officers and as a first-aid station during combat

4. (Military) the site of numerous battles or campaigns

5. (Gambling, except Cards) an enclosure used for cockfights

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cock•pit

(ˈkɒkˌpɪt)

n.

1. a usu. enclosed space in the forward fuselage of an airplane containing the flying controls, instrument panel, and seats for the pilot and copilot or crew.

2. a sunken open area in the aft of a small vessel, containing the steering wheel.

3. the space, including the seat and instrumentation, surrounding the driver of a racing car or sports car.

4. a pit or enclosed place for cockfights.

5. a place noted as the site of many battles.

6. (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 the wounded.

[1580–90]

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Noun	1.	cockpit - compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft aircraft - a vehicle that can fly canopy - the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit compartment - a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area ejection seat, ejector seat, capsule - a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
	2.	cockpit - a pit for cockfights pit - an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
	3.	cockpit - seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car auto racing, car racing - the sport of racing automobiles race car, racing car, racer - a fast car that competes in races seat - any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down"

Translations

حُجَيْرَةُ الطَّيّارغُرْفَةُ القِيَادَة

kabina pilotakokpit

cockpitførerkabine

Cockpit

πιλοτήριο

cabina

lentokoneen ohjaamoohjaamo

cockpit cabine

pilotska kabina

stjórnklefi

abitacolo cabina di pilotaggio

コックピット

조종실

kabīne

kokpit

pilotska kabina

cockpit

ที่นั่งคนขับเครื่องบินหรือรถแข่ง

kokpitpilot yeri

buồng lái máy bay

驾驶员座舱驾驶舱

cockpit

[ˈkɒkpɪt] N

1. (Aer) → cabina f

2. (for cockfight) → reñidero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cockpit

[ˈkɒkpɪt] n (in aircraft) → cabine f de pilotage, cockpit m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cockpit

(Aviat, of racing car) → Cockpit nt; (Naut: on yacht) → Plicht f, → Cockpit nt

(for cockfighting) → Hahnenkampfplatz m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cockpit

[ˈkɒkˌpɪt] n (Aer) → cabina di pilotaggio, abitacolo

cockpit

(ˈkokpit) noun

a compartment in which the pilot of an aeroplane, driver of a racing-car etc sits. He climbed into the cockpit and drove off.

cockpit

→ غُرْفَةُ القِيَادَة kokpit cockpit Cockpit πιλοτήριο cabina lentokoneen ohjaamo cockpit pilotska kabina cabina di pilotaggio コックピット 조종실 cockpit cockpit kabina pilota cabina do piloto кабина cockpit ที่นั่งคนขับเครื่องบินหรือรถแข่ง kokpit buồng lái máy bay 驾驶舱

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The water still poured in, and perforce we doubled up in the cockpit and tossed it out again.

They're warning the others," said George, the remaining patrolman, as he stood beside me in the cockpit.

Some of the Chinese stood in the forward part of the cockpit, near the cabin doors, and once, as I leaned over the cockpit rail to flatten down the jib-sheet a bit, I felt some one brush against my hip pocket.

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He locked with Nelson in the cockpit of the Reindeer, and in the mix-up barely escaped being brained by an iron bar wielded by irate French Frank--irate because a two-handed man had attacked a one- handed man.

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Simultaneously Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick vaulted nimbly out of the cockpit on the opposite side of his plane, calling to the girl to follow his example.

Numa, unaccustomed to the idiosyncrasies of construction of an airship and having gained the forward cockpit, watched the girl clamber out of his reach without at first endeavoring to prevent her.

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Yes, the squire is right; for if-so-be that he wasn’t, how is it that the seventh son always is a doctor, whether he ships for the cockpit or not?

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Tulliver himself, with his general view of law as a cockpit, might not, under opposite circumstances, have seen a fine appropriateness in the truth that "Wakem was Wakem"; since I have understood from persons versed in history, that mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

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But now the whole atmosphere was the Seat of War, and every land a cockpit. So closely had the nations raced along the path of research and invention, so secret and yet so parallel had been their plans and acquisitions, that it was within a few hours of the launching of the first fleet in Franconia that an Asiatic Armada beat its west-ward way across, high above the marvelling millions in the plain of the Ganges.

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So the strife settled down into a personal affair between Flashman and our youngsters--a war to the knife, to be fought out in the little cockpit at the end of the bottom passage.

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point of the island, I was perfectly confounded and amazed; nor is it possible for me to express the horror of my mind at seeing the shore spread with skulls, hands, feet, and other bones of human bodies; and particularly I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.

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A still duskier place is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old craft's cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored old ark rocked so furiously.