cockpit

CEFRC1

/ˈkɒkˌpɪt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The area where a pilot controls an aircraft.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A site of conflict; a battlefield.

Examples

  • The future pilot is trained in a mock cockpit.

  • The most experienced pilots have logged many thousands of hours in the cockpit.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A theater or other entertainment venue.

  2. A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

  3. The vagina.

More examples

In context

  • A cockpit, which was still used for cock-fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, used to occupy the site of the vicarage.

  • 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.

  • India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The pilot checked all instruments in the blank before starting the engines.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.