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Noun pit has 7 senses
- pit, cavity - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
--1 is a kind of hole, hollow
--1 has particulars:
- pit, fossa - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
--2 is a kind of concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature; cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
--2 has particulars:
- stone, pit, endocarp - 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"
--3 is a kind of pericarp, seed vessel
--3 has particulars: peach pit; cherry stone
- pit, pitfall - a trap in the form of a concealed hole
--4 is a kind of trap
- pit, quarry, stone pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
--5 is a kind of excavation, hole in the ground
--5 has particulars: chalkpit, chalk pit; gravel pit; trou-de-loup
- orchestra pit, pit - lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
--6 is a kind of area
--6 is a part of theater, theatre, house
- colliery, pit - a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
--7 is a kind of workplace, work
--7 has parts: coal mine, coalpit; mine
Verb pit has 3 senses
- pit, oppose, match, 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"
--1 is one way to confront, face
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- scar, mark, pock, pit - mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
--2 is one way to deface, disfigure, blemish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- pit, stone - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
--3 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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