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What does pit mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pit? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A hole in the ground.
  2. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
  3. (music) 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.
  4. A mine.
  5. (archaeology) 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.
  6. (trading) A trading pit.
  7. (plural) Something particularly unpleasant.
  8. The bottom part of.
  9. (colloquial) Armpit.
  10. (aviation) A luggage hold.
  11. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
  12. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
  13. The grave, or underworld.
  14. 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.
  15. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make pits in.
  2. To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
  3. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  4. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
Noun
  1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
  2. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
  3. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
Noun
  1. (informal) A pit bull terrier.
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