COCKPIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockpit mean? 

• COCKPIT (noun)
  The noun COCKPIT has 3 senses:

1. compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft

2. a pit for cockfights

3. seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car

  Familiarity information: COCKPIT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKPIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cockpit" is a kind of...):

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

Meronyms (parts of "cockpit"):

canopy (the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit)

capsule; ejection seat; ejector seat (a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute)

Holonyms ("cockpit" is a part of...):

aircraft (a vehicle that can fly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pit for cockfights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cockpit" is a kind of...):

pit (an enclosure in which animals are made to fight)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cockpit" is a kind of...):

seat (any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit))

Domain category:

auto racing; car racing (the sport of racing automobiles)

Holonyms ("cockpit" is a part of...):

race car; racer; racing car (a fast car that competes in races)

 Context examples 

Pilots flying at high altitude, for instance, may experience vision impairment if planes fail to supplement cockpits with additional oxygen.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

There was a human tenderness, too, in his way of speaking of his dead comrades, which made me understand why it was that he was so beloved by all who served with him, for, iron-hard as he was as seaman and fighter, there ran through his complex nature a sweet and un-English power of affectionate emotion, showing itself in tears if he were moved, and in such tender impulses as led him afterwards to ask his flag-captain to kiss him as he lay dying in the cockpit of the Victory.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)