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Pit   /pɪt/   Listen
Pit

noun
1.
A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).  Synonym: cavity.
2.
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression).  Synonym: fossa.
3.
The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.  Synonyms: endocarp, stone.
4.
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.  Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition.  "A demon from the depths of the pit" , "Hell is paved with good intentions"
5.
An enclosure in which animals are made to fight.
6.
(commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on.
7.
(auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled.
8.
A trap in the form of a concealed hole.  Synonym: pitfall.
9.
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.  Synonyms: quarry, stone pit.
10.
Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers.  Synonym: orchestra pit.
11.
A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.  Synonym: colliery.
verb
(past & past part. pitted; pres. part. pitting)
1.
Set into opposition or rivalry.  Synonyms: match, oppose, play off.  "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion" , "He plays his two children off against each other"
2.
Mark with a scar.  Synonyms: mark, pock, scar.
3.
Remove the pits from.  Synonym: stone.



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"Pit" Quotes from Famous Books



... redouble, Heaven open, heed my trouble! God, if my cause Thine shall be, Grant a day of victory! Fell all Thy foes now! Fell all Thy foes now! Roll forth Thy thunders, Thy lightning affright them, Into the pit, the bottomless, smite them, Their seed uproot, Tread under foot! Send then Thy snowy white dove peace-bringing, Unto Thy faithful Thy token winging, Olive-branch fair of Thy summer's fruition After the deluge of ...
— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
 
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... was brought close to the hole, and the bones rattled down into that black pit. The two skulls struck against each other; a spark, not likely to be seen by those standing near, was doubtless exchanged between the head that made 'The Philosophical Dictionary' and the head that made 'The Social Contract,' When that was done, when the sack was shaken, when Voltaire ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard
 
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... happiness. "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." The revelations of high life that come to the challenge and the fight are only the occasional croppings out of disquietudes that are, underneath, like the stars of heaven for multitude, but like the demons of the pit for hate. The misery that to-night in the cellar cuddles up in the straw is not so utter as the princely disquietude which stalks through splendid drawing-rooms, brooding over the slights and offences of high life. The bitterness of trouble seems ...
— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
 
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... be only to do well, And he alone be crowned who did excel. Ye call them Whigs, who from the church withdrew, But now we have our stage dissenters too, Who scruple ceremonies of pit and box, And very few are sound and orthodox, But love disorder so, and are so nice, They hate conformity, though 'tis in vice. Some are for patent hierarchy; and some, Like the old Gauls, seek out for elbow room; Their arbitrary governors disown, And build a conventicle stage of their ...
— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe
 
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... twenty, in the pit at La Scala, with music-mad Milan all about him. Two-Hawks! He remembered now. The nickname the young bloods had given her because she had been eternally guarded by her mother and aunt, fierce-beaked Calabrians, who had determined ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
 
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