(n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
(n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
(n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pilot, who sustained serious injuries, was thrown clear of the cockpit in his seat after the impact, but investigators are still trying to ascertain if he had tried to eject.
(2) As with the 787, the plane may be dramatically different but the cockpit is designed for continuity for pilots, albeit with a host of technological improvements.
(3) The noise of several alarms – including one that indicated the plane was stalling – can be heard going off in recordings from the black box in the cockpit, the investigator said.
(4) The key measure, sealing cockpits to deny access to passengers, is universal.
(5) It showed the Buk missile exploding on the left-hand side of the cockpit.
(6) In one high-profile gaffe, the expertise of one member of Macierewicz’s commission was revealed to have been based upon experience of constructing model aircraft, sitting in a fighter jet’s cockpit during an air show, and observing plane wings while looking out of a passenger window.
(7) During a period of one year, 6,863 employees underwent routine medical check-ups: 3,223 ground staff, 3,129 cabin staff, and 511 cockpit crew.
(8) [The cockpit voice recorder] seems to be under a wing, which is quite heavy,” said Supriyadi, operations coordinator for the search and rescue agency.
(9) As Frank De Winne, head of the European astronaut corps puts it: “This isn’t education, this is a mindset.” Peake, 43, grew up in Chichester and fell in love with flying when he sat for the first time in the cockpit of a plane in the cadet force at school.
(10) This allows the aircrew members to experience the effect of viewing instruments in the cockpit of a C-130 aircraft.
(11) The mean WBGT in the cockpit over the 1-h standby period was positively correlated with the ambient WBGT at time 0 (r = 0.783, p less than 0.001).
(12) The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) says the report, due on Tuesday, will include details gathered from the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder, satellite and other images, and radar information.
(13) The so-called black boxes - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder - record what happens on board planes in flight.
(14) The results show that both vertical and lateral gradients exist in F4E aircraft and that single-point measurements of Tdb close to the right shoulder show a bias of up to 4 degrees C in relation to mean cockpit dry bulb temperature derived from measurements at five sites.
(15) Development of a prone-position cockpit with a counterweighted, forward-looking head support plus optical-electronically aided all-directional visibility is the most physiologic, safest, and surest way to achieve this goal.
(16) In order to examine the influence of enhanced information transfer on aircrew behavior, intracrew communications and approach-to-land decisions were evaluated with conventional ATC communications and with automated cockpit alerting and display of weather information.
(17) @OSCE monitors visited cockpit debris today, say not scorched like other parts of wreckage, add that 37 bodies removed from there, inc crew July 20, 2014 7.36pm BST Kiev Post's Christopher Miller tweets: Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) .
(18) The AAIB team will examine the information from the cockpit voice recorder which will give them two hours of pilots' conversations as well as studying the contents of the flight data recorder (FDR).
(19) The trajectories of head movements in the helmet and velocities of impact contact with the seat and anterior of the cockpit were calculated as applied to every stage of the catapulting process and mass-inertia parameters of helmets taken into account.
(20) Results suggested that flight stresses perceived by crewmembers in the same cockpit were influenced by their flying experience and flight position which could be clearly assessed by determining relative excretions of epinephrine and norepinephrine.
Cocktail
Definition:
(n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
(n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
(n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
(n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
(2) The work reported was done as part of an intensive investigation on toxic and radioprotective properties of three substances, ATP, AET and serotonin, administered singly or in combination to mice, with a view to identifying optimal dose ratios for cocktails.
(3) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(4) These monoclonal antibody cocktails were drug conjugated and administered intravenously.
(5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
(6) The stains-cocktails are well preserved for 4-5 weeks and may be used repeatedly.
(7) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
(8) A group calling itself Fight Xenophobia contacted AFP to claim the attack, which it said was carried out with “Molotov cocktails”.
(9) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
(10) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(11) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
(12) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(13) Sometimes she would take me out for cocktails and get diplomatic cars from embassies to take me home.
(14) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(15) MAbs were screened in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against three different antigen cocktails: S-form LPS from three P. aeruginosa strains, R-form LPS from six P. aeruginosa strains and, as a negative control, R-form LPS from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
(16) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(17) There is no easy win against terrorists, Tunisia will be pursuing a cocktail of solutions,” said one London-based security expert.
(18) This study illustrates the approach that we have taken to individualize the cocktail of MoAbs for the development of patient-specific therapeutic immunoconjugates.
(19) Rhodes said Obama had not been briefed about the arrest of three activists alleged to have been planning to throw molotov cocktails at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago as well as the home of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
(20) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?