Meaning of pit | Babel Free

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1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
   Northern-US
2. Abbreviation of Pittsburgh.
   abbreviation, alt-of
3. Initialism of personal income tax.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
4. A pit bull terrier.
   informal
5. A hole in the ground.
6. The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.
7. Initialism of programmable interval timer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
8. The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
9. An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
10. To extract the pit from (a fruit).
11. Initialism of precision immobilization technique: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
12. 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.
13. The hard, central part of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry, usually containing a single seed; a stone.
14. Initialism of pursuit intervention technique: the same method for ending car chases.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
15. A mine.
16. The seating area on the lower level of the auditorium (now more frequently called the stalls). An orchestra pit is a lowered area in front of a proscenium for musicians.
17. Initialism of parallel immobilization technique: the same method for ending car chases.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
18. 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.
19. To place in opposition or be in opposition to:counter, match, oppose, play off.
20. A trading pit.
21. A fertilized plant ovule capable of germinating:kernel, pip, seed.
22. An armpit.
    colloquial
23. (with against) to set (a person or thing) against another in a fight, competition etc. He was pitted against a much stronger man. teen mekaar opstel يَتَبارى . изправям един срещу друг opor(-se) a postavit (proti) gegenüberstellen være op imod βάζω κπ. να αναμετρηθεί με κπ. άλλο oponer una persona a otra, poner a una persona contra otra vastu seadma به جان هم انداختن panna vastakkain opposer (à) לְהִתמוֹדֵד עִם प्रतियोगिता में किसी के खिलाफ खड़ा होना postaviti za protivnika, omjeriti se sa sz...
    with
24. A luggage hold.
25. a possible danger. She has managed to avoid most of the pitfalls of life. struikelblok مَزْلَق، خَطَر كامِن капан armadilha léčka die Fallgrube faldgrube παγίδα, κίνδυνοςdificultad, escollo püünis خطر غیرمنتظره vaara piègeמכשול चोरगढ़ा, कूटावपात klopka csapda jebakan (veiði)gryfja, dulinn hætta trappola, insidia 落とし穴 함정 spąstai lamatas; slazds; bīstama situācija kesulitan yg tdk diduga valkuilfallgruve, fellepułapka نااټكل شوى خطر armadilha cap­cană опасность pasca past opasnost fallgrop หลุม...
26. A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
    countable
27. the hard stone of a peach, cherry etc. pit نَواة костилка caroço pecka der Kern sten κουκούτσιhueso kivi هسته kivi noyauחרצן चेरी इत्यादि का कड़ा हिस्सा koštica voća (csonthéjas) mag biji ávaxtasteinn nocciolo たね 씨 kauliukas (augļa) kauliņš biji pitkjerne, steinpestka بمبته caroço sâmbure косточка kôstka koščica koštica kärna เมล็ดในของผลไม้ çekirdek 果核 кісточка آڑو وغيرہ کي گٹھلي hột 果核
    etc
28. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
29. The grave, underworld or Hell.
30. to remove the stone from (a peach, cherry etc). ontpit يَنْزَع النَّواة махам костилката tirar o caroço odpeckovat entkernen udstene ξεκουκουτσιάζω deshuesar, quitar las pepitas viljakivi eemaldama درآوردن poistaa kivi dénoyauter לְהוֹצִיא חַרצָנִים चेरी इत्यादि से कड़ा हिस्सा हटाना izvući(košticu) kimagoz (gyümölcsöt) membuang biji taka stein/kjarna úr ávexti snocciolare ねを取る 씨를 빼다 iðimti kauliukà izņemt kauliņu membuang biji pitten ta ut kjerner/steiner drelować راوړل tirar o caroço a scoat...
    etc
31. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
32. 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.
33. Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
34. Only used in the pits.
    in-plural, slang
35. A mosh pit.
    slang
36. The center of the line.
37. The emergency department of a hospital.
    slang
38. 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.
39. A bed.
    slang
40. An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
    informal
41. A bleak, depressing state of mind.
    figuratively
42. Short for dish pit
    abbreviation, alt-of
43. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.

Equivalents

Examples

“The meadow around the town is full of old pits.”

“27 Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him.”

“Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.”

“The exact sites of Feng and Hao have yet to be verified, but seven pits containing chariots, horses and other Zhou burial objects were discovered at Fengxi, and a concentration of Western Zhou relics and tombs was found in the area of Doumen in Changan County on the east bank of the Feng River.”

“[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].”

“Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.”

“He keepeth back his soul from the pit.”

“as fiercely as two game-cocks in the pit”

“His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.”

“Because the museum was closed for renovation, the school decided to bring its fourth-graders to the pit at a Cannibal Corpse gig instead.”

“The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler.”

““They don't call the middle of the line The Pit for nothing. We really do get like animals, trying to claw one another apart in there. It is very hard in The Pit. No matter how it seems, no matter what the score shows, it's always hard. […]”

“Many Bacardi & Cokes later I climbed up into my pit and fell into a deep sleep, and woke up at one thirty in the morning and threw up my tea.”

“This house is a total pit. We've got to do some cleaning!”

“He was in a pit of despair.”

“Get back to the pit, dish bitch!”

“The plot takes us through the "sleaze pits", the lower West Side leather bars, which Travis notes with undue repulsion.”

“Near-synonym: pip”

“[...] weapons "pits" (the plutonium components of nuclear weapons, named by analogy with the pit of a fruit such as a peach), [...].”

“The Nagasaki-type [bomb] [...] had a wider range of yield potential depending on the kind of fissile core and tamper assembly, or "pit," used in it.”

“I resolved to find all my pits good homes and to get out of the rescue and breeding business.”

CEFR level