cockpit
See also: Cockpit
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cockpit (plural cockpits)
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- The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile). [from 20th c.]
- The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
- 1984 September 3, Steve Harris (lyrics and music), “Aces High”, in Powerslave, performed by Iron Maiden:
- Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste
- (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. [from 16th c.]
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 194–195:
- 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.
- 2020 October 28, “Police officer raiding illegal cockfight gets killed by rooster”, in BBC News:
- Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days […]
- (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield. [from 16th c.]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, prologue]:
- 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?
- 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 170:
- India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina. [from 17th c.]
- 1658, John Eliot, Poems, London: Henry Brome:
- 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.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 191:
- […] ſo that her thighs duly diſclod'd, and elevated, laid open all the outward proſpect of the treaſury of love: the roſe-lipt ouverture preſenting the cock-pit ſo fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miſs it: […]
- (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
- 1803, R. C. Dallas, Esq., The History of the Maroons: […] , volume 1, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, →OCLC, page 39:
- 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.
- (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay. [from 17th c.]
- (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]
- (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms edit
- (control area of an airplane): flight deck, office
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants of cockpit in other languages
Translations edit
space for pilot and crew in an aircraft
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compartment for wounded — see sickbay
nautical: well, where the helm is
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enclosure for cockfights — see cockfighting pit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English cockpit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cockpit m (plural cockpits)
Further reading edit
- “cockpit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpiter, definite plural cockpitene)
References edit
- “cockpit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpitar, definite plural cockpitane)
References edit
- “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English cockpit.
Noun edit
cockpit c
- a cockpit (of an airplane)
- Synonym: förarkarbin
Usage notes edit
Sometimes treated somewhat like a proper noun, with for example "en orm i cockpit" (a snake in cockpit) instead of "en orm i cockpiten" (a snake in the cockpit), similar to English.
Declension edit
| Declension of cockpit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | cockpit | cockpiten | cockpitar | cockpitarna |
| Genitive | cockpits | cockpitens | cockpitars | cockpitarnas |