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Definition of Pit
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Pit
A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit. A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit. See Pit of the stomach (below). The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc. A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct. To place or put into a pit or hole. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another. Related Definitions:
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Pit Quotations
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Mae West A punk concert isn't fun without a pit. Billie Joe Armstrong I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems. Dave Barry We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. Tahar Ben Jelloun |
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Pit Translations
pit in Afrikaans is pit, sloot pit in Dutch is groeve, gracht, greppel, groef, kuil pit in Finnish is ydin pit in German is Grube, Paterre pit in Italian is fossa, abisso pit in Latin is barathrum, vorago, cavus, puteus pit in Spanish is hoyo, hornacho, zanja, derrumbadero pit in Swedish is grop |
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