pit
IPA: pˈɪt
noun
- A hole in the ground.
- (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- A mine.
- (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- (trading) A trading pit.
- (colloquial) Armpit.
- (aviation) A luggage hold.
- (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, 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 theatre.
- (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
- (slang) A mosh pit.
- (American football) The center of the line.
- (hospital slang) The emergency department.
- (UK, military, slang) A bed.
- (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
- (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- (informal) A pit bull terrier.
- Abbreviation of Pittsburgh. [A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.]
- Initialism of personal income tax.
- (computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer.
- Initialism of precision immobilization technique.: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin.
- Initialism of pursuit intervention technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
- Initialism of parallel immobilization technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
verb
- (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
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Examples of "pit" in Sentences
- They took the rabbit to the pit.
- A stench of decay rose from the pit.
- The fires of the pit crackle and pop.
- The man in the pit suffered the most.
- Copious pits on the side facing the electrode.
- The residue is pitted and porous in appearance.
- The ladder remains perched on the side of the pit.
- The goal for the future is direct casting of the pit.
- The pit is heated to assist the fermentation process.
- Moreover, the term pit bull isn't really a breed at all.
- Another thing that is punished is the speeding in the pits.
- Outside of what we term pit and dress circle is a partition, three or four feet high, dividing them from a promenade ten or fifteen feet wide.
- Dozens of groups such as The Truth About Pit Bulls counter what they call pit bull propagandists with harrowing tales and examples of brutality.
- The boxes and other parts of the house were crammed, with the exception of the pit, which looked beggarly; on which an actor observed to a brother of the sock, "We've no _pit_ to-night."
- Soon it becomes clear that the task of digging the pit is unending — almost by definition, since it must accommodate the whole (no pun intended) of the future: the pit is a inverted tower of
- Barber told the AJC that his intention was to let the East Point attorney know people were talking about her behind her back, and the term pit bull was meant as a complimentary description of the way she did her job.