PIT
\pˈɪt], \pˈɪt], \p_ˈɪ_t]\
Definitions of PIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
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lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
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a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
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a trap in the form of a concealed hole
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remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
By Princeton University
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set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
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lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
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a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
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a trap in the form of a concealed hole
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.
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A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
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The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
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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.
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A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
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Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
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A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
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A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
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The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
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See Pit of the stomach (below).
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The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
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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.
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An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
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The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
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A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
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To place or put into a pit or hole.
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To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
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To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
By Oddity Software
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A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.
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A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
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The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
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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.
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A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
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Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
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A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
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A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
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The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
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The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
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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.
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An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
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The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
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A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
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To place or put into a pit or hole.
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To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
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To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
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See of the stomach (below).
By Noah Webster.
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A deep hole in the earth; an abyss; the shaft of a mine; a hole used for trapping wild animals; in England, the cheap part of the ground floor of a theater; an inclosed space in which animals are set to fight each other; as, a cockpit; in the United States, that part of a commercial exchange set aside for some special business; as, the wheat pit; a hollow part of the body; as, the armpit; a small hole left, as by smallpox; Hades: with the; in the United States, the kernel of certain fruits, as the cherry or plum.
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To mark with small hollows; to match or set to fight against another; as, to pit one's strength against another; place in a pit or hole.
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Pitting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A hole in the earth: an abyes: the bottomless pit: a hole used as a trap for wild beasts: whatever insnares: the hollow of the stomach: the indentation left by smallpox: the groundfloor of a theatre: the shaft of a mine.
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To mark with pits of little hollows: to set in competition:-pr.p. pitting; pa.t. and pa.p. pitted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To mark with pits or hollows.
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To set in antagonism.
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To put into a pit.
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To become marked with pits.
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A cavity; depression; abyss.
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The main floor of the auditorium of a theater.
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An enclosed space, as for the fighting of cocks or dogs.
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The kernel of certain fruits.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A depression formed in the course of cell-wall thickening in plant tissue; an embryonic olfactory depression.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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See fossa and depression.
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To be or become marked with a pit or shallow depression; to p. on pressure, where edema is present, is to preserve for a short time a depression made by pressure, as with the tip of the finger.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Gaelic, Latin] A large, deep hole in the ground; a well;—an excavation for catching wild beasts;—hence, an abyss; especially, the bottomless pit; hell;—the grave;—an indenture in the flesh; as, the hollow place under the arm;—the hollow of the stomach;—indentation or mark left on the flesh by a pustule of the small pox;—the lowest place in a theatre where spectators assemble; parquet;—an area into which cocks or dogs are brought to fight.
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