Pit

Domain	Definition
Computing	PIT Language for IBM 650. (See IT). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Bible	Pit a hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Ps. 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Ps. 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Rev. 20:1, 3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Gen. 14:10). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Biology & Biotechnology	A)a recess in the secondary cell wall, together with its external closing membrane; open internally to the lumen; b)a collective term for pits or pit-pairs. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks in business ventures and will draw uneasiness about your wooing. To fall into a pit denotes calamity and deep sorrow. To wake as you begin to feel yourself falling into the pit, brings you out of distress in fairly good shape. To dream that you are descending into one, signifies that you will knowingly risk health and fortune for greater success. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Finance	A trading arena located on the floor of an exchange in which traders execute orders. Source: European Union. (references)
	Formerly, the area on the Paris Bourse where stockbrokers traded by open outcry. Source: European Union. (references)
Fine Arts	The entire lower floor of the auditorium. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Small pit remaining in a polished surface. Source: European Union. (references)
	Small crater produced during grinding or sandblasting and remaining on the finished article. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	A surface depression in a forging produced by a scale in the dies during the forging operation. Source: European Union. (references)
	A small depression or cavity produced in a metal surface during electrode-position or by corrosion. Source: European Union. (references)
	A deep chamber, or furnace, of square, rectangular or circular shape, into which steel ingots are placed in an upright position through an opening at the top. A removable cover closes the pit opening. Soeaking pits serve the dual function of providing uniform heating of ingots and acting as a reservoir in the flow of ingots from the steel melting shop and the primary rolling mills. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Depression produced in a metal surface by nonuniform electrodeposition or by corrsion b. Excavation to hold quantities of water and drilling fluids c. So. Wales. Long, open-air fire for converting coal into coke for blast-furnace purposes d. A mine, quarry, or excavation worked by the open-cut method to obtain material of value. e. The shaft of a mine; a shaft mine; a trial pit f. The underground portion of a colliery, including all workings. Used in many combinations, as pit car, pit clothes, etc. g. In hydraulic mining, the excavation in which piping is carried forward. h. Commonly, a coal mine, but not usually called so by workers, except in reference to surface mining where the workings may be known as a strip pit. (references)
Slang	Noun. Source: From the standard English term "pit", meaning an artificial or natural hole or cavity in the ground. . Definition: The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit. Context: Would likely be used by members of the orchestra or by theater personnel, but also by audience members who may want to "look down into the pit" during intermission . Social Source: West Coast musicians. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Slang in 1811	PIT. A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentleman's fob. PIT. To lay pit and boxes into one; an operation in midwifery or copulation, whereby the division between the anus and vagina is cut through, broken, and demolished: a simile borrowed from the playhouse, when, for the benefit of some favourite player, the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Pit

Pit (game)

Pittsburgh Pirates

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pit

Synonyms within Context: Pit

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Comparison	Verb: compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side, juxtapose; (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance.
Concavity	Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb.
Depth	Hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell.
Discord	Split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; Noun: embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against.
Hell	Noun: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol.
	Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Husbandry	Menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.
Interment	Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.
Mart	The pit, the floor.
Opening	Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.
Opposition	Verb: oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand; (resist); control; (restrain); hinder; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.
Satan	The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon.
The Drama	Auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses.
Workshop	Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Pit

Commercial Usage: Pit

Domain	Title
References	Open Pit Mining Machinery in Argentina: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Facing Death: Or the Hero of Vaughan Pit. a Tale of the Coal Mines (reference) Smoke & Spice: Cooking with Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue, on Your Charcoal Grill, Water Smoker, or Wood-Burning Pit (reference) Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Trader (reference) Pit Ahoi!/Penguin Pete, Ahoy! (reference) Successful Living Rooms: Project Ideas and Instructions to Build a Bar, Entertainment Center, Conversation Pit, Accent Wall, Fireplaces (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Pit & Quarry (reference) Pit Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Snake Pit (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Fire Pit (reference) Smokin' In the Pit [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Robo Pit (reference) Star Wars: Pit Droids (reference) Pit Pocket Ca/cs/ct10 Remote Holder (reference) Portable Innovation Technology PIT MemPlug SmartMedia Adaptor Memory Card Springboard Module (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Pit

Photo Album: Pit

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Greenhill/East Timbalier above ground waste pit associated with petroleum facility. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Halemaumau Fire Pit at night within Kilauea Crater at Volcanoes National Park. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Dumping materials into a large open pit at Blackbird Mine as part of the clean-up work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		A view of Bucktail drainage basin. An open pit in the upper right hand area. Waste rock deposited throughout the basin. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Lobster works a pit in a shell bed. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm. Totally wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation. Inhabitants dug pit on highest part of island and put coconut logs over pit for shelter. Some fatalities occurred. Credit: Small World.
	A stack of 122mm rockets lay in the Pit, March 11 and 12, 1991, near Khamisiyah, Iraq after being demolished. (Photo courtesy of the 307th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army).		Larry Coburn explaining soils horizens at the Soils of Georgia Exhibit, Lockerley Arboretum, Georgia. The soils exhibit and pit was built with the cooperation of the NRCS and RC&D. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.
	Liquid manure storage pit from a dairy operation in northeast Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.		A young lady attempting to get through yellow starthistle to empty garbage at Pit River, California. Credit: Jerry Asher.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Sounds Captioned with "Pit".

Familiar Quotations: Pit

Use in Literature: Pit

Non-Fiction Usage: Pit

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Almost all of the relevant studies involved populations of children between 6 and 15 years of age. The interventions included application of acidulated phosphate fluoride gel (APF), fluoride varnish, chlorhexidine gels, pit and fissure sealants, and the use of dentrifices and other products containing noncariogenic sweeteners. (references)
		Indeed, given the dramatic improvements in reducing dental caries prevalence in the past 30 years, both consumers and health professionals should not depart from the practices which are likely to have contributed to this oral health improvement, including the use of a variety of fluoride products, dietary modification, pit and fissure sealant, improved oral hygiene, and regular professional care. In addition, pending new data, clinicians should apply both preventive and therapeutic interventions in the manner in which they have been studied. (references)
Business		In some undeveloped areas, pit latrines are used which present a major problem with regard to both the transporting and disposal of the sludge. (references)
		Despite the problems, increasing difficulties in siting landfills and tightening regulations for the open pit type landfills common in Thailand are forcing authorities to seek other methods of solid waste disposal. (references)
Children	Cameroon	There were several credible stories of mothers (usually young, unemployed, and unmarried) abandoning newborns in streets, garbage cans, and pit toilets. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	The local market for underground mining equipment is relatively small, when compared to the market for open pit mining. (references)
	Bolivia	The best immediate sales prospects for mining equipment are in supplying the needs of medium-sized open pit mines and heap leaching operations and small-/medium-sized alluvial gold mining cooperatives. (references)
Human Rights	Saint Lucia	Sanitation is a particular problem, with open pit latrines for prisoners. (references)
	Sri Lanka	In March 1999, municipal workers uncovered a pit near the Durraipa Stadium in Jaffna that contained the skeletal remains of several persons. (references)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	He reported that prisoners use a communal pit as a latrine. (references)
Political Economy	Cote d'Ivoire	In January by-elections, the parties won the following number of seats: The FPI, 96 seats; PDCI, 94; RDR (despite their boycott), 5; PIT (Workers' Party), 4; small parties, 2; independents, 22. Two seats from Kong, the home district of Ouattara, remained unfilled at year's end. (references)
	Sudan	In previous years, Human Rights Watch reported that the Sudan Alliance Forces (SAF), an NDA member, committed abuses against its soldiers accused of spying or defecting to another rebel group, including torture, summary executions, and the detention of prisoners in a pit in the ground. (references)
	Sudan	In 2000 Human Rights Watch reported that the Sudan Alliance Forces (SAF), an NDA member, committed abuses against its soldiers accused of spying or defecting to another rebel group, including summary executions, torture, and detention of prisoners in a pit in the ground; the SAF continued to deny the allegations. (references)
Political Rights	Cote d'Ivoire	At year's end, 19 ministers were members of the FPI; 5 ministers were members of the PDCI, the former ruling party; 2 ministers were members of the PIT, a minor left-wing party; and 2 were nominally independent but in fact were members of the UDPCI, General Guei's party. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	The legislative by-elections were held on January 7 in Agnibilekrou and on January 14 in the northern regions where the elections had been boycotted and disrupted by the RDR. Following the legislative by-elections, 223 of the 225 seats of the National Assembly were filled: the FPI won 96 seats, the PDCI 94 seats, the PIT 4 seats, very small parties 2 seats, independent candidates 22 seats, and the RDR (in spite its boycott of all of the legislative elections) 5 seats. (references)
Trade	Colombia	Colombia's Industrial Development Fund (IFI) has been heavily involved in project financing and has taken over most of the obligations acquired by the financial funds administered by the Central Bank before the restructuring of the Central Bank in 1992. IFI has equity in such major Colombian projects as the Cerromatoso ferronickel mine and the Cerrejon open pit coal mine (the world's largest). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Spoken Usage: Pit

Usage Frequency: Pit

Derived & Related Names: Pit

Expressions: Pit

Expressions using "pit": american pit bull terrier ♦ arm pit ♦ barbecue pit ♦ bark pit ♦ bed or pit ♦ bitter pit ♦ bordered pit ♦ borrow pit ♦ bottomless pit ♦ botttomless pit ♦ Brine pit ♦ building pit lining ♦ Chalk pit ♦ Cherry pit ♦ clay pit ♦ coal pit ♦ coalescent pit aperture ♦ Cold pit ♦ crank pit ♦ cyclone pit ♦ dig a pit ♦ dig a pit for smb. ♦ drawing pit ♦ electric cable pit ♦ fire pit ♦ flea pit ♦ Forcing pit ♦ gravel pit ♦ gun pit ♦ included pit aperture ♦ Lime pit ♦ linear pit ♦ orchestra pit ♦ peach pit ♦ pit accident ♦ pit against ♦ Pit and Fissure Sealants ♦ pit boards ♦ pit bull ♦ pit bull terrier ♦ pit coal ♦ pit fall ♦ pit frame ♦ pit hat ♦ pit head ♦ pit helmet ♦ pit kiln ♦ pit martin ♦ pit membrane ♦ pit of hell ♦ pit of orchestra ♦ pit of the stomach ♦ pit one person against another ♦ pit one's clothes off ♦ pit one's clothes on ♦ pit oneself ♦ pit oneself against ♦ pit oneself against smb. ♦ pit planting ♦ pit pony ♦ pit prop ♦ pit run ♦ pit saw ♦ pit slope ♦ pit stop ♦ pit timber ♦ pit torus ♦ pit viper ♦ pit worker ♦ ramiform pit ♦ rat pit ♦ rifle pit ♦ salt pit ♦ sand pit ♦ saw pit ♦ scale pit ♦ simple pit ♦ slime pit ♦ snake pit ♦ soaking pit ♦ soaking pit furnace ♦ spent fuel pit cooling loop ♦ stone pit ♦ sump pit ♦ tar pit ♦ the bottomless pit ♦ the pit ♦ the wheat pit ♦ tunnel pit ♦ upcast pit ♦ vestured pit ♦ wheel pit ♦ wince pit ♦ working pit. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pit": Pit-a-line-on, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat!, pit-bank, pit-boy, pit-bull, pit-bulls, pit-cage, pit-caves, pit-closure, Pit-cnt, pit-craft, pit-dogs, pit-door, pit-face, pit-falls, pit-fire, pit-head, pit-heads, Pit-hole, pit-houses, pit-lad, pit-lane, pit-like, pit-marked, Pit-men, pit-owners, pit-pair, pit-pass, pit-pat, pit-pond, pit-ponies, pit-pony, pit-popsy, pit-prop, pit-props, pit-run gravel, pit-shafts, pit-spawning, pit-stalls, pit-stop, pit-stops, pit-wall.
	Ending with "pit": sand-pit, snake-pit.
	Containing "pit": go pit-a-pat, my feet went pit-a-pat, shell-pit-crater.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pit

Modern Translation: Pit

Language		Translations for "pit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		sloot (ditch, hole), pit (core, kernel, nucleus). (various references)

Albanian		pus miniere (shaft), pjesë e fundit e platesë, vret lija, vrajë (welt, wheal), vendi ku rri orkestra, vë të ndeshen, vë përballë, sqetull (armpit, oxter), qëroj bërthamat, minierë qymyri (coal pit), lë shenja, krater në hënë, gropëz (dimple, pockmark), gropë e thellë, bërthamë (core, nucleus, pip, seed, stone). (various references)

Arabic		‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏شامة (beauty spot, grain, mole), ‏أغرى الحيوانات بالمصارعة, ‏خرج النوى, ‏صحن بورصة الأسعار, ‏علامة (denotation, evidence, index, indication, learned, mark, marker, marking, savant, scholar, score, seal, sign, smudge, stamp, symptom, tick, token, type), ‏عمود (armature, column, perch, pier, pillar, pole, post, prop, stake, standard, stock), ‏تبارى (compete, contest), ‏تجويف (bore, bowl, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hole, hollow, pocket, recess, scoop, sinus, socket), ‏دخل في عمق المنجم, ‏حب الشباب (acne), ‏منجم فحم, ‏حفرة (bore, cavity, excavation, fossa, grave, hole, hollow, trough), ‏قبر كبير, ‏نواة الخوخ أو التمر, ‏نقط (dapple, dot, fleck, mottle, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple, trickle), ‏نقطة الإنطلاق في السباق, ‏هوة (chasm, maw), ‏مقاعد الفرقة الموسيقية, ‏منجم (augur, mine), ‏تنقر. (various references)

Basque		putzu. (various references)

Bulgarian		капан (ambush, deadfall, death trap, man-trap, mousetrap, net, pitfall, snare, trap, trepan, web), дупчица от шарка, изваждам костилките, изкоп (earthwork, trench), партер (first floor, ground floor, parterre, stalls), покривам (bestride, cap, case, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover up, deck, defray, do over, encase, encrust, enshroud, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pustulate, sheet, surmount, vesture, wreathe), белег от шарка (chuck-hole, pock, pockmark), арена за бой на петли, задната част на партера, отдел на стоковата борса, вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, groove, hole, hollow, indent, indentation, indention, notch, pan, recess, socket, well), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hole, hutch, leak, mesh, opening, perforation, pore, rent, scoop, tear, vent), вълча яма (pitfall), яма (crater, excavation, hole), кариера (career, excavation, mine, quarry, race), костилка на плод, кухина (cavity, chamber, fossa, hole, hollow, lumen, recess, ventricle, vug), шахта (chute, shaft, trunk, well), трап (excavation, hole, trap, vampire), хлътналост, ремонтен канал, ров (delve, dike, ditch, excavation, trench), рудник (diggings, mine), слагам в яма, язва (cancer, ulcer), вадя костилките. (various references)

Chinese		坑 (to defraud). (various references)

Czech		prohlubeò (hollow), postavit k zápasu, poïobat, past (mantrap, mesh, pitfall, snare, trap), silážovat, montážní jáma, jáma (air pocket, colliery, hole), hodit do jámy, díra (backwater, burrow, gap, hole, joint, leak, puncture, rip, split, tear, vent), dùl (diggers, mine, trough), šachta (shaft, well). (various references)

Danish		kærne (core, kernel, nucleus). (various references)

Dutch		pit (core, fuse, grain, granule, kernel, nucleus, pip, wick), kuil (cave, cavity, ditch, hole, pole), groeve (ditch, grave, hole, tomb), groef (ditch, furrow, hole, slot, wrinkle), greppel (ditch, hole), gracht (canal, channel, ditch, hole). (various references)

Esperanto		kerno (core, kernel, nucleus), fosaĵo (ditch, hole). (various references)

Faeroese		kjarni (core, kernel, nucleus). (various references)

Farsi		هسته میوه رادراوردن , هسته البالووگیلاس وغیره , چاله , چال دارکردن , گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Grave, Hole, Puddle, Sinus, Swag, Trench, Vesicle), حفره (Cavern, Cavity, Cell, Dale, Delve, Ditch, Hole, Lacuna, Pothole, Sinus, Socket, Ventricle), سیاه چال (Dungeon), درگودمبارزه قراردادن.چال , به رقابت واداشتن . (various references)

Finnish		kuoppa (dimple, hole, hollow). (various references)

French		noyau, trou, fosse. (various references)

Frisian		dobbe (cave, cavity, ditch, hole). (various references)

German		Grube (cave, cavern, cavity, den, grave, hole, hollow, mine). (various references)

Greek		πλατεία θέατρου (orchestra, parquet, parterre), ορυχείο (mine), τρύπα από άμμο, τρύπες από άμμο (sand hole), αντιτάσσω (oppose), λατομείο (quarry), λάκκος, λάκκοσ (cesspool, dugout, fossa, puddle, sump), άνοιγμα στο δάπεδο, διάβρωση μεγέθους μύτης καρφίτσας (pinpoint corrosion), χωνοειδής αποθηκευτικός χώρος, κάνω λάκκουσ, πυθμένας φρεατίου (hoistway pit), πυθμένας πηγαδιού (hoistway pit), πυρήν (core, kernel, nucleus), νταμάρι (quarry), ξεκουκιάζω (core, stone), σημάδια (pitting, scale pit), σκάμμα (sandpit), κουκούτσι (core, kernel, pip), φρέαρ ορυχείου. (various references)

Hebrew		שחת (grave, pitfall), ביר (cistern), גוב (den, manhole), גומה (fovea, hole, pothole), גומץ (fossa, hole), גלעין (kernel, stone in fruit), דות (cavity, cistern, hole), כוך (alcove, crypt, niche), באר (well), פיר (hole, shaft, trench), משקע (deposit, depression, dregs, hole, precipitate, residue, sediment, settling, sinking), שוחה (dugout, natant), תהום (abyss, chasm, depth), להעמיד לקרב, לעשות גומות, מהמורה (pothole), מכרה (mine), מכרה פחם (coal mine), עוקה (cavity, sump, trap, well). (various references)

Hungarian		gödör (hole, pot hole, pothole, socket, swale), csonthéjas mag (stone), bánya (mine), akna (grenade, mine, shaft, shell, sink, tunnel, well). (various references)

Indonesian		mengadu (bump, contest), lubang terowongan. (various references)

Italian		fossa (ditch, Fosse, grave, hole, moat, scoop, trench), abisso (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, depth, fovea, gulf, precipice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		落し穴 (pitfall, trap), 落とし穴 (pitfall, trap), 鉱坑 (mine, shaft), 窪地 (basin, depression, hollow), 縦穴 (shaft), 種子 (seed), ピストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt), 平土間 (orchestra, parquet), 凹地　 (basin, depression, hollow), 凹地 (basin, depression, hollow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たてあな (shaft), おうち (back regions, backwoods, basin, depression, hinterland, hollow, interior, reaching a peak, reaching the limit), おとしあな (pitfall, trap), ピット , くぼち (basin, depression, hollow), しゅし (finger, gist, idea, meaning, motive, object, opinion, seed), ひらどま (orchestra, parquet), こうこう (baby chicken, brave, cruise, filial piety, great feudal lords, harbor entrance, higher technical school, incurable disease, mine, minehead, mouth cavity, pickled vegetables, pithead, princes and marquises, senior high school, sexual union, shaft, surge, thefather of the current emperor, valiant, young and inexperienced person). (various references)

Korean		구덩이 (pits). (various references)

Manx		slogh (hollow, shaft), ooig (antar, cave, cavern, den, grotto, hotbed, stope), niurin (hell, inferno, nether regions, underworld). (various references)

Occitan		potz (well). (various references)

Pig Latin		itpay.(various references)

Portuguese		poço de mina (pit head), cova (burrow, f

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PIT	Dutch	Fysieke inventarisatie	Nuclear Energy & Physics
PIT	English	Powder in tube	Industry
PIT	Greek	δειγματοληπτική διερεύνηση των βασικών πυρηνικών υλικών	Nuclear Energy & Physics
PIT	Italian	Partners per la transizione	Abbreviation
PIP	English	Permanent improved pit	Personal Care & Hotels
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I hired a pit bull, not a prom queen (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) There's rattlesnakes down there in that pit, and I'll throw you in it (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) At birth, I was cast into a flaming pit of scum forgotten by God. (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz) All those that are greedy fall into the pit. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Greg, I'm afraid you've earned four hours in the snake pit as punishment (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)
Lyrics	You can take the darkness from the pit of the night (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) That's why they call me pit bull (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men)
Clever	What Has Four Legs And An Arm? A Happy Pit Bull. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967) Quatermass and the Pit (1967) Ladies in Distress: Saving the Orphan from the Tiger Pit (1966) Pit of Darkness (1961) Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Crackle; flame; warmth; fire pit; fireplace.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Denis Diderot	The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
John Arbuthnot	Law is a bottomless pit.
St. Jerome	An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Last Chance To See	Douglas Adams	At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dogfights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The pit of vermin of Benares is not less bewildering than the Pit of Lions of Babylon
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.


"Truck Station" by Luke Partridge Commentary: "Gravel pit loading station."	"Campfire" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A fire burning in a fire pit. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Laura Schlessinger	Sometimes. You know, I'm surprised how many people calling my show will describe themselves honestly. It's just that when you're in a pit, you don't always know how to get out.
Rush Limbaugh	If I were a citizen of a country that had been around thousands of years, and was still basically a sand pit, when I looked at America, I would want to come here, not to tear this country down.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.57%	1,419	5,665
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.71%	57	44,859
Noun (proper)	1.76%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.63%	25	69,787
Unclassified Items	0.2%	3	202,518
Noun (common)	0.13%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,533	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pit".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Baalath-beer	N/A	Biblical	Subjected pit
Misheal	N/A	Biblical	Pit
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fire pit	1,171	hairy pit	139
barbecue pit	650	pit bull fighting	128
american pit bull terrier	538	horse pit shoes	126
bull picture pit	487	pit bull breeders	111
pit	470	snake pit	106
pit bull dog	402	brad pit	106
pit bull terrier	395	mosh pit	105
american pit bull	311	barbecue klose pit	105
pit bull puppy	307	copper fire pit	101
brea la pit tar	298	chat pit	97
horseshoe pit	257	nose pit red	87
blue pit bull	213	bull pit puppy sale	86
outdoor fire pit	205	pit stop	86
red nose pit bull	197	pit pita	85
babe pit	167	build a fire pit	81
bull pit sale	165	blue pit	75
pit bull rescue	162	the tar pit	75
ball pit	153	build a horseshoe pit	73
bull pic pit	143	brick barbecue pit	71
pit bull kennel	143	pit smoker	70
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pit

Definition: Pit

Pit

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Specialty Definition: Pit

Specialty Definition: Pit

Pit (game)

Pittsburgh Pirates

Franchise history

Baseball Hall of Famers

Current stars

Not to be forgotten

Retired numbers

External links

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pit

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Comparison

Concavity

Depth

Discord

Hell

Husbandry

Interment

Mart

Opening

Opposition

Satan

The Drama

Workshop

Crosswords: Pit

Modern Usage: Pit

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

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Commercial Usage: Pit

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Books

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Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

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Sounds Captioned with "Pit".

Familiar Quotations: Pit

Denis Diderot

John Arbuthnot

St. Jerome

Use in Literature: Pit

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Pit

Spoken Usage: Pit

Laura Schlessinger

Rush Limbaugh

Usage Frequency: Pit

Derived & Related Names: Pit

Expressions: Pit

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pit

Modern Translation: Pit

Afrikaans

Albanian

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