cockpit

cockpit
noun Date: 1585 1. a. a pit or enclosure for cockfights b. a place noted for especially bloody, violent, or long-continued conflict 2. obsolete the pit of a theater 3. a compartment in a sailing warship used as quarters for junior officers and for treatment of the wounded in an engagement 4. a space or compartment in a usually small vehicle (as a boat, airplane, or automobile) from which it is steered, piloted, or driven — see airplane illustration

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  • cockpit — [ kɔkpit ] n. m. • 1878; mot angl. ♦ Creux dans le pont d un yacht à voiles. Aviat. Habitacle du pilote. ⇒ cabine. Autom. Le cockpit d une voiture de course. ● cockpit nom masculin (anglais cockpit, de cock, coq, et pit, trou) Emplacement réservé …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Cockpit — Sn Raum des Piloten per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. cockpit, einer Zusammensetzung aus ne. cock Hahn und ne. pit Grube . Aus der ursprünglichen Bedeutung Grube für Hahnenkämpfe entwickeln sich im Englischen… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • cockpit — CÓCKPIT s.n. (mar.) Spaţiu neacoperit pe punte, amenajat cu banchete pentru călători sau pentru echipaj. [pl. te, turi, var. cocpit s.n. / < engl. cockpit]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 19.12.2004. Sursa: DN  CÓCKPIT s. n. ( …   Dicționar Român

  • Cockpit — Cock pit (k[o^]k p[i^]t), n. 1. A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. [1913 Webster] Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. The Privy Council room at Westminster; so called because built on the site of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Cockpit — »Kabinenvorraum auf Jachten; vertiefter Sitzraum auf Segelbooten, Plicht; Pilotenkabine in Flugzeugen; Fahrersitz in Rennwagen«: Das Wort wurde im 20. Jh. aus gleichbed. engl. cockpit entlehnt. Dies bedeutet wörtlich »Hahnengrube« (zu engl. cock… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • Cockpit — (spr. Kackpitt), die Bühne, worauf die Hahnengefechte (s.d.) in England gehalten werden …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • cockpit — 1580s, a pit for fighting cocks, from COCK (Cf. cock) (n.1) + PIT (Cf. pit) (1). Used in nautical sense (1706) for midshipmen s compartment below decks; transferred to airplanes (1914) and to cars (1930s) …   Etymology dictionary

  • cockpit — |coquepite| s. m. 1. Compartimento de um avião destinado ao piloto ou aos pilotos. = CABINA 2. Compartimento destinado ao piloto de uma viatura ou embarcação, geralmente de competição. • Sinônimo geral: HABITÁCULO • Plural: cockpits.… …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • cockpit — m DEFINICIJA v. kokpit …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • cockpit — ► NOUN 1) a compartment for the pilot and crew in an aircraft or spacecraft. 2) the driver s compartment in a racing car. 3) a place where cockfights are held. ORIGIN from COCK(Cf. ↑cock) + PIT(Cf. ↑pitted); sense 1 derives from an 18th century… …   English terms dictionary

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