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pit
n.
stone, kernel, seed
n.
hole; mine; trap; ring where animal fights take place; depression; section of the stock market where a particular type of commodity is traded
v.
remove a seed, remove the large kernel from a fruit
v.
scar, cause a permanent marking; put in opposition, set one against another
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Pit
Pit or PIT may refer to:
- Armpit, a body part
- Ball pit, a recreation structure
- Casino pit, that part of a casino which holds gaming tables
- Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
- Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
- Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
- Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
- PIT-1, a gene
- Pit bull, a breed of dog
- Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
- PIT maneuver, a method used by law enforcement
- Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party
- Open-pit mines, pits in the earth used for extracting minerals
- Point-in-time, tuple-versioning in a relational database management system
- WF-31, a cocaine analogue
- John Pitts (Catholic scholar) (1560-1616), also spelled Pits or Pitseus
- A coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of England
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Pittsburgh International Airport
- For the United States Air Force facility at PIT, see Pittsburgh IAP Air Reserve Station
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pit
Noun
1. a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
(synonym) cavity
(hypernym) hole, hollow
(hyponym) barbecue pit
2. a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
(synonym) fossa
(hypernym) concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
(hyponym) glenoid fossa, glenoid cavity
(derivation) scar, mark, pock
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; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
(synonym) stone, endocarp
(hypernym) pericarp, seed vessel
(hyponym) peach pit
(derivation) stone
4. a trap in the form of a concealed hole
(synonym) pitfall
(hypernym) trap
5. a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
(synonym) quarry, stone pit
(hypernym) excavation, hole in the ground
(hyponym) chalkpit, chalk pit
6. lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
(synonym) orchestra pit
(hypernym) area
(part-holonym) theater, theatre, house
7. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
(synonym) colliery
(hypernym) workplace, work
(part-meronym) coal mine, coalpit
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) oppose, match, play off
(hypernym) confront, face
2. mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
(synonym) scar, mark, pock
(hypernym) deface, disfigure, blemish
(hyponym) pockmark
(entail) incise
(verb-group) score, nock, mark
(derivation) fossa
3. remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
(synonym) stone
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(derivation) stone, endocarp
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pit (de)
n.
kernel, drupel, stone, pip, wick, candlewick, pith, pit, duramen, core, granule, grain, nucleus, marrow, spunky, heart
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pit
n.
jáma; box
v.
nadělat díry; postavit koho proti komu
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