English Dictionary

cockpit

名詞

歴史的 比喩的用法 俗語 卑語 ジャマイカ英語

The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).

日本語の意味

レーシングカー（または、それに類するスポーツカーなど）における運転席または運転室

She squeezed into the cockpit of the racing car and adjusted the harness before the lights went out.

彼女はレースカーの運転席に身をかがめ、スタートの合図が出る前にハーネスを調整した。

意味（1）

The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).

意味（2）

The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft.

Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste

意味（3）

(now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

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.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A site of conflict; a battlefield.

But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?

意味（5）

(vulgar, slang) The vagina.

If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore.

意味（6）

(Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.

The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a ſtation in ſome glen, or, as it is called in the Weſt Indies, Cockpit, encloſed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile.

意味（7）

(nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.

意味（8）

(nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.

意味（9）

(figuratively) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.

cockpits （ plural ）