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# cockpit

«cockpit» in Mova's school dictionary: **The front part of an aeroplane, where the pilot sits and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cockpit, cockpits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The front part of an aeroplane, where the pilot sits and flies it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#m1)

2) The small space where the driver sits in a racing car, or the steering area of a small boat or spaceship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#m2)

3) (old) A pit or ring where cockfights were held. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In technology and transport lessons the cockpit is full of controls and screens; on airliners the pilot and co-pilot sit there and the door is locked for safety. In stories set in planes, racing cars or spaceships, the cockpit is where the action is. Phrases: in the cockpit, cockpit door, cockpit controls.

### examples

- The pilot waved from the cockpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x1)
- We were allowed to visit the cockpit after landing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x2)
- The racing driver climbed into the cockpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x3)
- The cockpit had hundreds of buttons and switches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x4)
- The astronaut checked the controls in the cockpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x5)
- The cockpit door is locked during the flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/#x6)

### note

Countable: a cockpit, cockpits. One word. The word "cock" here is an old word for a rooster (from cockfighting pits); it is not rude. Similar: flight deck (on large airliners).

### In the corpora

- [Think of a pilot in a flight simulator: the cockpit is a model, but the skill is real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/5/)
- [Children may sometimes visit a plane's cockpit, but only trained pilots fly the plane.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cockpit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockpit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.