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pit

A pit is a big hole in the ground. Don't fall in the pit! A pit is a large seed such as that in a peach. The peach pit is hard. Don't bite it.

pit

If something is pitted, it is marked with little hollows. The metal is pitted due to the exposure to acid rain. If you pit something, you remove the seed from a fruit. Please pit the cherries before giving it to the children.

pit

a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) they dug a pit to bury the body (= match) 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 remove the pits from pit plums and cherries a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) (= quarry, stone pit) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate a British term for 'quarry' is 'stone pit' a trap in the form of a concealed hole (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on an enclosure in which animals are made to fight (= colliery) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it (= orchestra pit) lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers (= 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 (= scar, mark) mark with a scar The skin disease scarred his face permanently (= Hell, perdition) (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 Hell is paved with good intentions — Dr. Johnson

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pit · verb

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Simple sentences

Those who dig a pit for others will be caught in it themselves.
A small child fell into a pit that wasn't properly secured.
Have you ever swallowed an apricot pit?
It's the first time I swallow a peach pit!
I dug a huge pit with my shovel in just one day.
Instead of digging a pit for your enemy, you should build your friend a house.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
The children played in the ball pit.
He fell into the bottomless pit.
I dug a pit.
Don't dig a pit for somebody to fall into, or you will end up in it yourself.
Naomi fell in the orchestra pit during her performance and broke her arm.
Be careful not to swallow the pit.
The video claims to be fifty-one seconds long, but it is in fact over 9000 eternities in Ganon's pit!
Tom discovered Mary's body in a pit.
He dug a pit with a shovel.

Movie subtitles

Pit foreman.
You go to the gravel pit, jill, and i'll go to the pond.
You two men go in the orchestra pit.
You see, our family history states. that the structure was built by the Romans over a natural sulphur pit. and used by them as mineral baths.
Where does the ladder into the sulphur pit lead to?
My heart is like a cold, deep pit.
You go on, Dr. Jekyll, and try to put old Beelzebub in his bottomless pit.
Let them to the pit.
You know as well as I do. that the monster died in the sulphur pit under Frankenstein's tower. and that Ygor, his familiar. was riddled with bullets from the gun of Baron Frankenstein himself.
Haven't I seen him, sitting beside the hardened sulphur pit. playing his weird horn, as if to lure the monster. back from death to do his evil bidding.
You lived through the pit, the sulphur pit!
But I wish I was in a black pit with my back broken wrecked.
Pilcher and I'll move around to the right and go for the machine gun pit.
There's no money in the pit!
Don't you remember how you went when Timba was in the pit the tribes had dug?
Via the boiler-room, a refuse pit. Through the sewers, in a laundry basket.
At the side of the pit, all the people were covered with blood.
But as a man, Monsieur Daubert, you can understand that sitting there in the orchestra pit night after night and looking at Christine, Claudio probably fell in love with her.
Perhaps you'd enjoy seeing the opera from the orchestra pit. Thank you, gentlemen.
But at the end thereof is the pit of Hell.
And this is a lime pit, in which men, women and children were buried alive.
Vows to the blackest pit.
We'll go out through the orchestra pit, and then I'll take you to my father's boat.
In the orchestra pit!
I'd like so much to take you out of. the pit you're in.
Well, you're a clever young gamecock, Van, but I'm not so old a bird that I'm afraid to stay in the pit with you.
But maybe he thinks that if he can pit the companies against each other he'll get a good position.
The clay pit workers took most of them.
May Allah will open. a pit under your feet, so that you fall in it and break your legs.
Forsyth to Control. Entering cyclotron pit.
So you think I'm from the fiery pit, do you?
We take it and wrap it in clean white cloth and then wrap it tight in canvas. and put it down in a pit of hot mesquite coals for 18 hours.
We'll use the pit arm there. After that we'll rest a little.
Now, when we're using pit arms, when the -- gets shallow, I want a rock to --.
I'll use the pit arms. Watch for them on your way out.

News and current affairs

Farmers were digging a pit in the riverbed, down to the water table approximately two meters below ground level.
Most modern cases of sanctions pit a large country against a small country, though there are a few cases involving countries of equal size, such as the long quarrel, from the 1950s to the 1980s, between the United Kingdom and Spain over Gibraltar.
Nor does it pit Europe against other regions.
According to Der Spiegel, even members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's staff are now describing the policy as a massive money pit.
Discussions over expenditures should not pit pediatricians against oncologists but instead, patients and physicians should discuss with governments overall expenditures for health and non-health needs.
Unfortunately, while a wealth tax may be a sound way to help a country dig out of a deep fiscal pit, it is hardly a panacea.
Human rights bodies, media associations, and lawyers' organizations are expected to defy the emergency, which will pit them against the security forces.
Their bodies were then chopped up, covered in quicklime, burnt, buried, dug up, and buried again in an unmarked pit.
Its first task will be to remove those provisions of Iraq's constitution that pit Iraq's Sunni, Shia, and Kurds against one another.
The risk that rising inflation in emerging Asia could spill over into Europe will pit the Bank's inflation hawks against those in favor of ensuring as fast a return to full employment as possible.
President George W. Bush's desire to shatter the Arab world's frozen societies was meant to pit the forces of modernization against the traditional elements in Arab and Islamic societies.
But those divisions were manipulated with the same sort of cynicism that Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman used to pit Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian against each other in the former Yugoslavia.
Indeed, many of the region's territorial disputes pit China against US allies.
While Germany and France disagreed on the concessions they were willing to offer, Greece could not pit one position against the other.
It will also pit the big carbon emitters of the future, like India and China, against present polluters like the US and Europe.
As long as the military, intelligence, and nuclear establishments remain unaccountable to the civilian government, Pakistan, the region, and the world will continue to be at risk from the jihadist snake pit that the country has become.
In 1960, the long neglected pit for the palace's foundation was transformed into an open-air swimming pool.
Whether Iraq can be held together despite the ethnic and religious confrontations that pit Kurds against Arabs and Sunnis against the Shi'a is one of the most pregnant questions for the new Middle East.