(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.
Stern
Definition:
(n.) The black tern.
(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Quenching of intrinsic fluorescence of (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by acrylamide, performed in the presence of Ca2+, gave evidence for a single class of tryptophan residues with Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) of 10 M-1.
(4) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
(5) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(6) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(7) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
(8) The influential economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, welcomed the proposal as "strong and reasonable" and "with the interests of developing countries at its heart".
(9) Tryptophanyl fluorescence of the lipoprotein assembly was quenched as indicated by a reduction in the effective Stern-Volmer constant.
(10) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
(11) 3.43am BST Spurs 57-56 Heat - 6:15 remaining, 3rd quarter And some thoughts via email from Daniel Vazquez-Paluch: I can't help wondering if LeBron is a victim of Stern's rule changes more than his own tendency to disappear.
(12) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
(13) Treatment with chymotrypsin to block the E1 to E2 transition results in a new set of quenching parameters which are unchanged with Na or K. Even after detergent denaturation (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate for 30 min), Stern-Volmer plots are nonlinear, and a significant fraction of tryptophan residues remain inaccessible to quencher.
(14) (At the time, he told shockjock Howard Stern on the record that he approved of it.)
(15) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(16) At low quencher concentrations, the quenching follows the classical Stern-Volmer law.
(17) A couple of times I’ve raised my voice, been stern and they’ve responded.
(18) Quenching of pyrene fluorescence emission of labeled ATPase by acrylamide and cesium chloride gave linear Stern-Volmer plots.
(19) In a wide-ranging news conference at the end of the G7 summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in Germany, Obama issued a stern warning against Russia, accepted praise for the work of US prosecutors at confronting corruption in world soccer, gave the US supreme court advice on how to rule in an upcoming healthcare case and defended his immigration policies.
(20) Orthodontic treatment in those days, like life in general, was simple and stern.