cockpitとは

意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cockpit (複数形 cockpits)

1. The driver's compartment in a racing car (または, by extension, in a sports car または other automobile). [from 20th c.]
2. The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
3. (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. [from 16th c.]
   • 1719 April 25, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor […], OCLC 15864594; 3rd edition, London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor […], 1719, OCLC 838630407, pages 194–195:

     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.

   • 2020 October 28, “Police officer raiding illegal cockfight gets killed by rooster”, in BBC News:

     Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days […]

4. (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield. [from 16th c.]
   • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan 2017, p. 170:

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

5. (vulgar, slang) The vagina. [from 17th c.]
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352, page 191:

     […] ſo that her thighs duly diſclod'd, and elevated, laid open all the outward proſpect of the treaſury of love: the roſe-lipt ouverture preſenting the cock-pit ſo fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miſs it: […]

6. (Jamaican) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
   • 1803, R. C. Dallas, Esq., The History of the Maroons: […] , volume 1, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, OCLC 1042055052, page 39:

     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.

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. [from 17th c.]
8. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]
   • 1984 September 3, “Aces High”, in Powerslave, performed by Iron Maiden:

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

9. (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. [from 20th c.]

同意語

• (control area of an airplane): flight deck, office

派生語

• cockpit voice recorder, cockpit recorder
• glass cockpit
• greenhouse cockpit

派生した語