Crossword clues for cockpit
cockpit
- Get into trouble about check on outside compartment
- Conservative to pick out — there's a place for a high-flyer
- Set up mine in the arena
- Raise stone in front of the plane
- Raise and then tilt upward pilot's seat?
- Racing driver's seat
- Pilot's compartment
- Pilot’s compartment
- Pick bananas in bed where F1 ones might be found
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockpit \Cock"pit`\ (k[o^]k"p[i^]t), n.
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A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit.
--Macaulay. The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
--Brande & C.-
(Naut.)
That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
In airplanes or boats, the space where the pilot or operator sits to control the vehicle. In airplanes it is usually in the front of the fuselage. In larger airplanes it may be closed off from the cabin, where the passengers travel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The space for those in control of a nautical, aeronautical, or astronautical vessel. 2 (context obsolete nautical English) The compartment set aside for the care of wounded during naval engagements; the sickbay. 3 (context nautical English) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. 4 An enclosure for cockfights.
WordNet
n. compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft
an enclosure for cockfights
seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car
Wikipedia
The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the aircraft. In most airliners, a door separates the cockpit from the aircraft cabin. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, all major airlines fortified their cockpits against access by hijackers.
thumb|right|upright=1.3|Cockpit of a small sailing boat A cockpit is a name for the location of controls of a vessel; while traditionally an open well in the deck of a boat outside any deckhouse or cabin, in modern boats they may refer to an enclosed area. Smaller boats typically have an aft cockpit, towards the stern of the boat, whereas larger vessels may provide a center cockpit with greater protection from weather. On a recreational sailboat, the cockpit is considered the most safe external location for crew.
A bridge deck is a raised separation between an external cockpit and cabin or saloon, used to keep water from astern from entering from the cockpit, especially in following seas.
Cockpit is a 2012 Swedish film directed by Mårten Klingberg.
Cockpit is a novel by Polish-American author Jerzy Kosiński, published in 1975.
Cockpit may refer to:
- Cockpit, the flight deck of a fixed-wing aircraft
- Cockpit (cockfighting), the arena where cockfights take place
- The Cockpit, the nickname for Williams-Brice Stadium
- Cockpit (web series), the original comedy web-series
- Cockpit (sailing), an area below deck near the stern of a naval sailing ship
- Cockpit (film), a 2012 Swedish film
- Cockpit (novel), a novel by Jerzy Kosiński
- Cockpit-in-Court, also known as the Royal Cockpit, was part of the historic Palace of Whitehall, and originally used for cockfighting
- From 1935, the driver's seat of some cars, especially in Formula One and Indy car racing
- The Cockpit (OVA), a 1993 anime based on three manga by artist Leiji Matsumoto
- The Cockpit (Leeds), a musical venue in Leeds, England
- The Cockpit Theatre Drury Lane 1616 to 1665
- The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, a theatre in London
- Cockpit management console, open-source software for managing the server (and the FreeIPA)
- The Cockpit Theatre Drury Lane 1616 to 1666
Usage examples of "cockpit".
Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as several Airbus models that have almost identical cockpits.
Still angry at what he was doing, bewildered by his motivation, Goodman yanked the chocks and entered the airplane, stomping up the narrow aisleway to the cockpit.
She leaned forward, caught at a backstay, and snatched her legs from the water in a final spasm of terror before swivelling round and rolling over on to the cockpit grating deck.
He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialise for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington.
He banged the rat against the side of the cockpit, but it clung on, and while it clung on, another rat jumped into the helicopter, and another.
Ackbar, Leia, and Terpfen sprang out of their cockpits as other Calamarian fighters joined them.
It was hardly more than a surfboard dressed up with a mast, rudder, centerboard, and a cramped little cockpit into which you could stick your feet as you sat on the open deck a few inches above the water.
Doctor squeezed the throttle, and Charlton reeled against the wall at the back of the cockpit as the shuttle rotated.
Two cargo loaders were at the rear, and a technician stood by the cockpit with a checkoff sheet.
Down in the cockpit were Lieutenant Commander Feyley, the OOD, and an enlisted phone talker there to relay communications in parallel with the speaker circuits in case of a failure of the bridge box.
He ducked down and reached for a clamshell on the port side of the cockpit--the clamshells were hinged panels that covered the top of the cockpit when rigged for dive, smoothing it out with the contour of the top of the sail.
Observing the decontamination chamber from the cockpit viewer, Chase was oddly reminded of a mother and child.
Do every part of the ship, except the cockpit, decontamination, and the laboratory.
Losing a fighter around you and going extravehicular did terrible things to the comforting illusions that kept fighter pilots rushing into those cockpits.
For about a femtosecond, he longed to see everything the two humans in the cockpit were seeing.