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pit

English

🔊 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
🔊 a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
“they dug a pit to bury the body”
🔊 a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
🔊 a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
🔊 lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
🔊 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”
🔊 (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil
“Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell”
🔊 remove the pits from
“pit plums and cherries”
🔊 set into opposition or rivalry
“let them match their best athletes against ours”
🔊 mark with a scar
“The skin disease scarred his face permanently”