Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PIT

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Definitions of PIT

1. A hole in the ground.
2. A mine.
3. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
4. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
5. 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.
6. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
7. The grave, underworld or Hell.
8. Abbreviation of Pittsburgh.
9. (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
10. (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.
11. (trading) A trading pit.
12. (colloquial) Armpit.
13. (aviation) A luggage hold.
14. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
15. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
16. (in the plural, with the, slang) .
17. (slang) A mosh pit.
18. (American football) The center of the line.
19. (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
20. (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
21. (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
22. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
23. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
24. (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
25. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
26. (informal) A pit bull terrier.
27. Initialism of personal income tax.
28. (computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer.
29. Initialism of precision immobilization technique.: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin.
30. Initialism of pursuit intervention technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
31. Initialism of parallel immobilization technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
32. (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
33. (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
34. (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
35. (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
36. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.

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Examples of Using PIT in a Sentence

• Treblinka I was a forced-labour camp (Arbeitslager) whose prisoners worked in the gravel pit or irrigation area and in the forest, where they cut wood to fuel the cremation pits.
• As well as short sprint races, many touring car series include one or more endurance races, which last anything from 3 to 24 hours and are a test of reliability and pit crews as much as car, driver speed, and consistency.
• Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit, although many pips or seeds may be present.
• In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.
• Most prunes are freestone cultivars (the pit is easy to remove), whereas most plums grown for fresh consumption are clingstone (the pit is more difficult to remove).
• Yoni appears in the Rigveda and other Vedic literature in the sense of feminine life-creating regenerative and reproductive organs, as well as in the sense of "source, origin, fountain, place of birth, womb, nest, abode, fire pit of incubation".
• The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit").
• At the sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each time to "dark-faced" Pelops in his sacrificial pit (bothros) before they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus (Burkert 1983:96).
• The calçots are a large type of sweet-flavoured spring onion, barbecued over a pit of flaming vines, and eaten piping hot with a sauce.
• After an earthquake in 362 BC, a huge deep pit suddenly opened in the Roman Forum, which the Romans attempted to fill, but in vain.
• Flint implements and pit dwellings on Keston and Hayes Commons show occupation of the area back to at least 3000 BCE, and there are Iron Age encampments in Holwood Park and on Keston Common.
• Open pit mining of taconite and processing it into high grade iron ore remains an important part of the economy of the Iron Range and is directly tied to shipping in the twin ports of Duluth and Superior.
• Ronald "Gun" Ficklin, former mayor of Greensburg, took over the sheriff's office from Phillips in 1998, but on February 5, 2007, Ficklin himself pleaded guilty on multiple counts involving his role in operating "chop shops" — reselling stolen automobiles and parts — using state prisoners to staff these activities and as a pit crew for his race car.
• The Sid and Augusta White Memorial Park offers picnic areas, covered pavilions, grills for cooking, a fireplace, a fire pit, and a splash pad.
• After getting the go-ahead from state and federal officials, the closed pits were allowed to flood and then the portion of land separating the old gravel pit from the lake was removed and the newly created additions to the lake were named Crystal Bay and Crystal Cove and were sold off to a developer for the construction of new homes.

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