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pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hell, infernal region, inferno, nether region, perdition |
| Type of | mythical place, imaginary place, fictitious place |
| Has types | tartarus, gehenna, red region, hellfire |
a demon from the depths of the pit.
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | orchestra pit |
| Type of | area |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cavity |
| Type of | hole, hollow |
| Has types | quicksand, trou-de-loup, sandpit, sawpit, divot, fire pit, borrow pit, barbecue pit, tar pit |
they dug a pit to bury the body.
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fossa |
| Type of | concave shape, cavity, cavum, incurvation, bodily cavity, concavity, incurvature |
| Has types | glenoid fossa, pit of the stomach, mandibular fossa, glenoid cavity, epigastric fossa |
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | endocarp, stone |
| Type of | seed vessel, pericarp |
| Has types | peach pit, cherry stone |
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | quarry, stone pit |
| Type of | excavation |
| Has types | gravel pit, chalkpit, chalk pit |
a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'.
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | area |
pit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | area |
Examples of pit
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Brian started crying as he stopped on pit road, then got a hug from his brother.
From the denverpost.com
Denver and Miami-Dade County in Florida have pit bull bans that go back decades.
From the sacbee.com
Oil-cured olives can be seeded simply by squeezing the olive to pop out the pit.
From the kentucky.com
Pit bulls are noteworthy for attacking adults, almost as frequently as children.
From the freep.com
A roving pit crew will exchange dead phone batteries for new ones, if necessary.
From the cnn.com
The best insurance against a management fiasco is a boardroom full of pit bulls.
From the businessweek.com
Ernie Irvan's pit crew hops to it during a pit stop at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
From the charlotteobserver.com
For the third time in as many evenings, we make a pit stop at the same pizzeria.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Additionally, he was working on Lorenzen's crew as the jackman during pit stops.
From the kentucky.com
- A sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
- 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"
- A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- Scar: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
- Remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
- Stone: 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"
- Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Pu0113 , Hebrew Pu0113 u05E4, Aramaic Pu0113 , Syriac Pu0113 u0726, and Arabic Fu0101u02BC u0641 (in abjadi order) and also Persian Peu02BC u067E.
- Pit or PIT may refer to:
- Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game was developed for Parker Brothers and first sold in 1904. ...
