Pit

Noun

 * 1) A hole in the ground.
 * 2) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
 * 3) A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
 * 4) An area at the auto racetrack used for refueling and repairing the cars during a race
 * 5)  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.
 * 6) A mine.
 * 7)  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.
 * 8)  A trading pit.
 * 9)  Something particularly unpleasant.
 * His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.
 * 1) The bottom part of.
 * 'I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.'

Verb

 * 1)  To bring into opposition, as in "to pit one's wits against someone".
 * 2)  To make pits in.
 * Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
 * 1)  To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
 * One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
 * 1)  To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Adjectives for Pit
fiery; bottomless; infernal; ghastly; fathomless; charnel; abysmal; enchanting; round; stupendous; blazing; murky; sepulchral.

Verbs for Pit
bore—; burrow—; delve into—; drill—; excavate—; explore—; hollow out—; mine from—; pitch into—; plug—; plunge into—; scoop—; seal—; sound—; —gapes; —traps;—undermines; —yields.

Thesaurus
American Stock Exchange, Amex, L, R, Wall Street, abysm, abyss, acorn, acting area, agora, alveolation, alveolus, amphitheater, antrum, apron, apron stage, arena, armpit, athletic field, audience, auditorium, auditory, background, backstage, balcony, band shell, bandstand, bank, barrow, basin, bear garden, beehive tomb, berry, bird seed, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, board, bone house, bourse, bowl, box, box grave, box seat, boxing ring, bridge, bull ring, bulla, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, campus, canvas, catacombs, cavity, cenotaph, charnel house, chasm, check, cicatrix, circus, cist, cist grave, coal mine, cockpit, coliseum, colliery, colosseum, comedo, commodity exchange, concave, concavity, congregation, corn pit, coulisse, counter, course, crack, crater, craze, crevasse, cromlech, crypt, cup, curb, curb exchange, curb market, deep, deep six, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, depression, depth, dig, diggings, dimple, dint, dip, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dock, dokhma, dolmen, dress circle, dressing room, engrave, excavation, exchange, exchange floor, fault, fauteuil, feel, field, finish, flaw, flaxseed, flies, floor, fly floor, fly gallery, fold, follicle, forestage, forum, freckle, fruit, funnel chest, furrow, gallery, gold mine, gouge, grain, granular texture, grave, greenroom, grid, gridiron, ground, groundling, gulf, gym, gymnasium, hall, hayseed, hemangioma, hickey, hippodrome, hole, hollow, hollow shell, honeycomb, house, house of death, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, keloid, kernel, kink, knub, lacuna, last home, lentigo, lightboard, linseed, lists, locale, loge, long home, low green tent, low house, marketplace, mastaba, mat, match, mausoleum, milieu, milium, mine, mole, monstrance, mummy chamber, nap, narrow house, needle scar, nevus, nigger heaven, notch, nub, nut, open cut, open forum, opencast, orchestra, orchestra circle, orchestra pit, ossuarium, ossuary, outside market, over-the-counter market, palaestra, parade ground, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, passage grave, peanut gallery, performing area, pile, pimple, pip, place, platform, pock, pocket, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, precinct, press in, print, prize ring, proscenium, proscenium boxes, proscenium stage, protuberance, public square, punch, punch bowl, punch in, purlieu, pustule, pyramid, quarry, quotation board, range, recess, reliquary, resting place, rift, ring, scab, scar, scene, scene of action, scenery, scoop, scratch, sebaceous cyst, seed, sepulcher, set back, set in, setting, shaft, shaft grave, shag, shell, shrine, sink, sinus, site, socket, spectator, sphere, split, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage left, stage right, stage set, stage setting, stall, stamp, standing room, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, stone, strawberry mark, structure, stupa, sty, sunken part, surface, surface texture, switchboard, tamp, telephone market, terrain, texture, the Big Board, the Exchange, the boards, theater, theatre stall, third market, ticker, ticker tape, tilting ground, tiltyard, tomb, tope, tower of silence, track, trough, tumulus, twist, vault, verruca, vesicle, vie, vug, wale, walk, warp, wart, weal, weave, well, welt, wen, wheat pit, whitehead, wings, woof, workings, wrestling ring, yawning abyss

Etymology 1
From, from pytt:, from , from  puteus:, from. Cognate with pet:,  put:,  put:,  Pfütze:,  pyt:,  pytt:.

Etymology 2
From pit

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:, փոս
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ორმო
 * German:
 * Greek: τρίπα
 * Hawaiian: lua
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hola, gryfja
 * Indonesian:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hola, gryfja
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Khmer: ក្រហូង
 * Korean: 구멍, 구덩이
 * Latin: fovea, puteus
 * Malayalam: കുഴി (kuzhi)
 * Maori:
 * Navajo: ,
 * Ojibwe:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: яма
 * Scottish Gaelic: sloc
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: หลุม, บ่อ
 * Welsh: pant
 * Welsh: pant
 * Welsh: pant
 * Welsh: pant


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: steinn


 * Ojibwe:
 * Russian: косточка
 * Spanish:, hueso


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Russian: косточка
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: గొయ్యి (goyyi)


 * Czech:, depo
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian: бокс
 * Spanish:


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Derived terms

 * pit-eye

Verb

 * Finnish: panna tappelemaan

Related terms

 * pit stop (3)

Anagrams

 * tip
 * tpi, TPI

Noun

 * 1) breast

Etymology
From pectus:. Compare Italian petto, Portuguese peito, Romanian piept, Spanish pecho

Noun

 * 1) A seed inside a fruit.
 * 2) burner on a stove
 * 3) spirit, vigour
 * 4) * 'Hij heeft pit' : He has something going for him.

Anagrams

 * tip

Noun

 * 1) vulva
 * 2) vagina

Etymology
From pit:, possibly related to putte:,  puteus:.

Verb

 * 1) to put

Synonyms

 * putt

Noun

 * 1) female external genitalia, vulva
 * 2)  cunt, pussy

Etymology
From pit:, possibly related to putte:,  puteus:.