1.  pit(n = noun.object) cavity - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
is a kind of hole, hollow
has particulars: trou-de-loup, barbecue pit, borrow pit, divot, fire pit, quicksand, sandpit, sawpit, tar pit

2.  pit(n = noun.shape) fossa - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression); Array
is a kind of bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
has particulars: glenoid cavity, glenoid fossa, glenoid fossa, mandibular fossa, epigastric fossa, pit of the stomach
Derived form verb pit₂

3.  pit(n = noun.plant) endocarp, 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"
is a kind of pericarp, seed vessel
has particulars: peach pit, cherry stone
Derived form verb pit₃

4.  pit(n = noun.cognition) hell, infernal region, inferno, nether region, 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"; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions"
is a kind of fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place
has particulars: gehenna, tartarus, hellfire, red region

5.  pit(n = noun.artifact) Array - an enclosure in which animals are made to fight; Array
is a kind of enclosure
has particulars: cockpit

6.  pit(n = noun.artifact) Array - (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on; Array
is a kind of area
is a part of commodities exchange, commodities market, commodity exchange

7.  pit(n = noun.artifact) Array - (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled; Array
is a kind of area

8.  pit(n = noun.artifact) pitfall - a trap in the form of a concealed hole; Array
is a kind of trap

9.  pit(n = noun.artifact) quarry, stone pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
is a kind of excavation
has particulars: chalk pit, chalkpit, gravel pit

10.  pit(n = noun.artifact) orchestra pit - lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers; Array
is a kind of area
is a part of house, theater, theatre

11.  pit(n = noun.artifact) colliery - a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it; Array
is a kind of work, workplace
has parts: coal mine, coalpit, mine

1.  pit(v = verb.competition) match, oppose, play off - 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"
is one way to confront, face
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody

2.  pit(v = verb.contact) mark, pock, scar - mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
is one way to blemish, deface, disfigure
Derived forms noun pit₂, noun pitting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  pit(v = verb.change) stone - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Derived form noun pit₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation [1913 Webster]
"Tumble me into some loathsome pit." [1913 Webster]

2.  Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. [1913 Webster]
"Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained." [1913 Webster]
"He keepth back his soul from the pit." [1913 Webster]

3.  A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. [1913 Webster]
"The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits." [1913 Webster]

4.  A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body [1913 Webster]

5.  Formerly, that part of a theater, 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 theater. [1913 Webster]

6.  An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. Locke. [1913 Webster]

7.  The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc. [1913 Webster]

1.  To place or put into a pit or hole. [1913 Webster]
"They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave." [1913 Webster]

2.  To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox. [1913 Webster]

3.  To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another. [1913 Webster]

pit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a usu. large deep hole in the ground. b a hole made in digging for industrial purposes, esp. for coal (chalk pit; gravel pit). c a covered hole as a trap for esp. wild animals.
2 a an indentation left after smallpox, acne, etc. b a hollow in a plant or animal body or on any surface.
3 Brit. Theatr. a = orchestra pit. b usu. hist. seating at the back of the stalls. c the people in the pit.
4 a (the pit or bottomless pit) hell. b (the pits) sl. a wretched or the worst imaginable place, situation, person, etc.
5 a an area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled. b a sunken area in a workshop floor for access to a car's underside.
6 US the part of the floor of an exchange allotted to special trading (wheat-pit).
7 = COCKPIT.
8 Brit. sl. a bed.
--v. (pitted, pitting)
1 tr. (usu. foll. by against) a set (one's wits, strength, etc.) in opposition or rivalry. b set (a cock, dog, etc.) to fight, orig. in a pit, against another.
2 tr. (usu. as pitted adj.) make pits, esp. scars, in.
3 intr. (of the flesh etc.) retain the impression of a finger etc. when touched.
4 tr. Hort. put (esp. vegetables etc. for storage) into a pit.

Idiom:
dig a pit for try to ensnare. pit-head 1 the top of a mineshaft.
2 the area surrounding this.
pit of the stomach
1 the floor of the stomach.
2 the depression below the bottom of the breastbone. pit pony hist. a pony kept underground for haulage in coal-mines. pit-prop a balk of wood used to support the roof of a coal mine. pit-saw a large saw for use in a saw-pit. pit viper any US snake of the family Crotalidae with a pit between the eye and the nostril.

pit, n. & v. US
--n. the stone of a fruit.
--v.tr. (pitted, pitting) remove pits from (fruit).

Etymology:
perh. Du., rel. to PITH

N  the drama, the stage, the theater, the play, film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography, theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis, play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame, melodrama, melodrame, comidie larmoyante, sensation drama, tragicomedy, farcical-comedy, monodrame monologue, duologue trilogy, charade, proverbs, mystery, miracle play, musical, musical comedy, western, horse opera, flick, spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film, pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film, act, scene, tableau, induction, introduction, prologue, epilogue, libretto, performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre, acting, gesture, impersonation, stage business, gag, buffoonery, light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy, theater, playhouse, opera house, house, music hall, amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round, puppet show, fantoccini, marionettes, Punch and Judy, auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet, greenroom, coulisses, flat, drop, drop scene, wing, screen, side scene, transformation scene, curtain, act drop, proscenium, stage, scene, scenery, the boards, trap, mezzanine floor, flies, floats, footlights, offstage, orchestra, theatrical costume, theatrical properties, movie studio, back lot, on location, part, role, character, dramatis personae, repertoire, actor, thespian, player, method actor, stage player, strolling player, stager, performer, mime, mimer, artists, comedian, tragedian, tragedienne, Roscius, star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol, supporting actor, supporting cast, ham, hamfatter, masker, pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine, punchinello, pulcinello, pulcinella, extra, bit- player, walk-on role, cameo appearance, mute, figurante, general utility, super, supernumerary, company, first tragedian, prima donna, protagonist, jeune premier, debutant, debutante, light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian, walking gentleman, amoroso, heavy father, ingenue, jeune veuve, mummer, guiser, guisard, gysart, masque, mountebank, Jack Pudding, tumbler, posture master, acrobat, contortionist, ballet dancer, ballet girl, chorus singer, coryphee danseuse, property man, costumier, machinist, prompter, call boy, manager, director, stage manager, acting manager, producer, entrepreneur, impresario, backer, investor, angel, dramatic author, dramatic writer, play writer, playwright, dramatist, mimographer, dramatic, theatric, theatrical, scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic, stagy, on the stage, on the boards, on film, before the floats, before an audience, behind the scenes, fere totus mundus exercet histrionem, suit the action to the word, the word to the action, the play's the thing, to wake the soul by tender strokes of art.

N  depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.

N  concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.

N  opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, 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, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

N  interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, 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, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.

american pit bull terrier, barbecue pit, borrow pit, bottomless pit, chalk pit, cyclone pit, fire pit, gravel pit, orchestra pit, peach pit, pit against, pit bull terrier, pit of the stomach, pit run, pit stop, pit viper, plutonium pit, snake pit, stone pit, tar pit