The Pit

Definition: The Pit

The Pit

Noun

1. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment: "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: The Pit

Mart

The pit, the floor.

Crosswords: The Pit

All those that are greedy fall into the pit. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea, and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac. (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

You can take the darkness from the pit of the night (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

The People of the Pit (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from the Pit Bosses (reference)

• In the Pit with Piper: Roddy Gets Rowdy (reference)

• Lessons from the Pit, A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Shows Executives How to Thrive in a Competitive Environment (reference)

• The Pit Prop Syndicate (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Pit and the Pendulum (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Smokin' In the Pit [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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).

Oil drilling rig (larger) and workover rig (smaller) with lined reserve pit just to the left of the larger rig (water can be seen in the pit).Credit: Merv Coleman.

[Building condition "the pit"].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Coal miners going to the pit, Jenkins, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cotton exchange members bidding in the pit. Memphis, Tennessee.Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners about to go down into the pit. Mahoning Mine, Hibbing, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.

One end of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide and about four hundred feet deep.Credit: Library of Congress.

World's largest open pit iron mine at Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide, four hundred feet deep.Credit: Library of Congress.

North Hibbing on the edge of the world's largest open pit iron mine. The old town of Hibbing is gradually being demolished as the the pit grows larger.Credit: Library of Congress.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Ruth De Roche, pit woman, placing a trimmed board on the proper pile in the pit.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

ferri (abyss). (various references)

Bulgarian 

адът, пъкълът (the lower regions). (various references)

Finnish

permantopaikka (seat in the pit, seat in the stalls, stall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鳩尾 (the pit of the stomach, the solar plexus), 坑外 (out of the pit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うがい (deploration, disclosure, epitome, off grounds, off-campus, out of school, out of the pit, outline, outside a port or harbor, outside the premises, outskirts, palate, patriotic lamentation, pollution, pollution or environmental damage due to mining, public nuisance, reveal, righteous indignation, suburb, summary), みぞおち (the pit of the stomach, the solar plexus), みずおち (the pit of the stomach, the solar plexus). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay itpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: petit, petti, tithe.

-2 letters: pith, teth.

-3 letters: eth, hep, het, hie, hip, hit, peh, pet, phi, pht, pie, pit, tet, the, tie, tip, tit.

-4 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, pe, pi, ti.

+1 letter: epithet, pettish.

+2 letters: epithets, pathetic, pithiest, tephrite, thiotepa.

+3 letters: apathetic, epithetic, hepatitis, pantheist, patchiest, pettishly, pitchiest, prettyish, prothetic, spaghetti, tephrites, therapist, thiotepas, tightrope.

+4 letters: asphaltite, battleship, chapatties, ciphertext, empathetic, epenthetic, lithophyte, orthoepist, outpitched, outpitches, pantheists, pathetical, polytheist, prosthetic, pyrrhotite, shipfitter, spaghettis, supertight, telepathic, therapists, thiopental, tightropes.

+5 letters: antipathies, antistrophe, asphaltites, battleships, ciphertexts, ectotrophic, epiphytotic, epithetical, hepatitides, hepatotoxic, heterotopic, heterotypic, hyperstatic, hypostatize, lithophytes, mythopoetic, ornithopter, orthoepists, orthopedist, osteopathic, pantheistic, parenthetic, paresthetic, pettishness, pheneticist, philatelist, photometric, photoresist, polytheists, prosthetics, prosthetist, pyrrhotites, retinopathy, shipfitters, spaghettini, spendthrift, splotchiest, spotlighted, stephanotis, studentship, sympathetic, telepathies, telephonist, theosophist, therapeutic, thiopentals, topstitched, topstitches, toxophilite, trophozoite, trusteeship, uptightness.

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