different between cockpit vs dock

English

Etymology

From cock +? pit.

Noun

cockpit (plural cockpits)

1. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or 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.]
4. (figuratively) 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.]
6. (Jamaican) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
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.]
9. (figuratively) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• Pitcock, cocktip

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (plural cockpits)

1. cockpit

Further reading

• “cockpit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpiter, definite plural cockpitene)

1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

References

• “cockpit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpitar, definite plural cockpitane)

1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

References

• “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: Doc, doc

Etymology 1

Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-Germanic *dukk- (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

Noun

dock (countable and uncountable, plural docks)

1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English dok, from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingirdoccana (“finger muscles”, genitive plural)), from Proto-Germanic *dukk? (compare West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eu-k- (“to spin, shake”) (compare Lithuanian dv??kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Sanskrit ??????? (dhuk?ati, “to blow”)).

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge

     The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock

3. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
   • 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronnides:

     And on a Cu?hion ?tuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

4. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

Translations

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.

Translations

References

Etymology 3

From Middle English dock (“mud channel”), from Middle Dutch docke (“channel”) (modern Dutch dok (“lock (canal)”)), from Old Italian doccia (“conduit, canal”) or Medieval Latin ducta, ductus. More at douche and duct.

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. (nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
2. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
3. The body of water between two piers.
4. The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
5. A section of a hotel or restaurant.

6. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
7. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
8. An act of docking; joining two things together.

Synonyms

• (body of water between piers): slip
• (structure for loading and unloading vessels): wharf, quay

Hypernyms

• (structure at shore to which vessel is secured): mooring, moorage

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
   • 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[2]

     On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.

2. To join two moving items.

   to dock spacecraft
3. (intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
4. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
5. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

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References

Etymology 4

Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) dok (“cage, hutch”).

Noun

dock (plural docks)

1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

Related terms

• in the dock

Translations

Etymology 5

Verb

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
   • 11 July 2008, Emma Christensen, The Kitchn: How and When to Dock a Pie Crust

     Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.

References

• “dock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish doch, dogh, dog, thoch, thok, tog, from Middle Low German doch, from Old Saxon th?h‚ from Proto-Germanic *þauh. Replaced native Old Swedish þo, from Old Norse þó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k?/

Adverb

dock

1. though, however, still, nevertheless