Word Finder - pit

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A hole in the ground.

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The meadow around the town is full of old pits.

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An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

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Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.

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A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.

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A mine.

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A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.

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A trading pit.

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The bottom part of something.

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I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.

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Armpit.

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A luggage hold.

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A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

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The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

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The grave, or underworld.

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An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

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Formerly, that part of a theatre, 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 theatre.

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Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

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A pit bull terrier.

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I'm taking one of my pits to the vet on Thursday.

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A mosh pit.

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Because the museum was closed for renovation, the school decided to bring its fourth-graders to the pit at a Cannibal Corpse gig instead.

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(law enforcement, usually used with "maneuver") A maneuver by which a police officer, by use of a police car, nudges the vehicle of a fleeing suspect enough for the suspect's vehicle to lose control and become disabled so the police officer can catch and apprehend the suspect.

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The fissile core of a nuclear weapon, commonly made of plutonium surrounded by high-explosive lenses.

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(hospital slang) The emergency department.

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To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.

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Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

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To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.

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To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

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Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?

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To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

A cold feeling began in the pit of her stomach.

We're building a fire pit here for a campsite.

A full-grown larva digs a pit about 2 in.

Dread stirred at the pit of her stomach.

Heaviness settled into the pit of his stomach.

When he was twelve years old he was instructed in starcraft by Nectanebus, who was killed by a fall into a pit, into which he had been playfully pushed by Alexander.

I learned that lesson when Sasha tossed me in a pit with full-blooded demons and were-things.

A cold feeling started in the pit of her stomach.

None of their words registered, nothing but the sick feeling at the pit of his stomach.

The attacker fell into the pit with an abruptly short scream.

A deep pit led down.

This is effected by carrying through the workings a large volume of air which is kept continually moving in the same direction, descending from the surface by one or more pits known as intake or downcast pits, and leaving the mine by a return or upcast pit.

In the inscription recording the contracts for its building it is called the Thymele; and this name may give the clue to its purpose; it was probably the idealized architectural representative of a primitive pit of sacrifice, such as may still be seen in the Asclepianum at Athens.

One of the most important branches of colliery work is the management of the ventilation, involving as it does the supply of fresh air to the men working in the pit, as well as the removal of inflammable gases that may be given off by the coal.

Cut down plants of chrysanthemums, which should be placed in a cool pit, near the glass, in order to afford hard sturdy cuttings in February.

Roses, carnations, camellias, azaleas, pelargoniums and the hardier sorts of plants will do better if placed in a cold frame or pit until the middle of November than they would in an ordinary greenhouse.

If asparagus or rhubarb is wanted for winter use, it should be taken up and stowed away in pit, frame, shed or cellar for a month or two.

On account of this difficulty the moulds formerly stood, not on cars, but directly on the floor of a casting pit while receiving the molten steel.

When the ingots had so far solidified that they could be handled, the moulds were removed and set on the floor to cool, the ingots were set on a car and carried to the soaking furnace, and the moulds were then replaced in the casting pit.

Gjers did this by setting the partly solidified ingot in a well-closed " pit " of brickwork, preheated by the excess heat of previous lots of ingots.

At first each claim was an independent pit 31 ft.

By 1889, in the whole group of mines, Kimberley, Dutoitspan, De Beers and Bultfontein, open pit working was practically abandoned.

The aspect of the Kimberley pit in 1906 is shown in fig.

Her opinion of his writings was more important to him than the voice of the pit of Drury Lane Theatre, or the judgment of the Monthly Review.

A pit or depression, known as "the cerebral organ," opens into the brain just above the mouth; this usually divides into two limbs, which are deeply pigmented and have been called eyes.

Sometimes, instead of a chamber formed above ground, the barrow covered a pit excavated for the interment under the original surface.

It owes its development from a mere pit village very largely to the enterprise of Sir Charles Mark Palmer.

An interesting feature of the minute anatomy of Euflorideae, as the Red Algae, exclusive of the Bangiaceae, have been termed, is the existence of the so-called Floridean pit.

When a cell divides it is found that there remains in the middle of the new wall a single large circular pit, which persists throughout the life of the cells, becoming more and more conspicuous with the progress of the thickening of the wall.

Protoplasmic continuity has been observed in the delicate membrane closing the pit.

The characteristic pit is also absent.

The method once exclusively used consists in mixing the raw materials with a large quantity of water in a wash mill, a machine having radial horizontal arms driven from a central vertical spindle and carrying harrows which stir up and intermix any soft material placed in the pit in which the apparatus revolves.

The tomb-pit is surrounded by chambers to hold the offerings, the actual sepulchre being a great wooden chamber in the midst of the brick-lined pit.

The cemetery of private persons begins in the Ist dynasty with some pit tombs in the town.

A rat, he declared, was gnawing at the pit of his stomach.

Royal authority, sheriffs, juries and witnesses gradually superseded ordeal, compurgation, and trial by battle, though even barons long retained the right of " pit and gallows."

Many victims of the plague were buried in a pit neighbouring to these fields, near the junction of Goswell Road and Old Street.

Just across the Nydeck bridge is the famous bear pit in which live bears are kept, as they are supposed to have given the name to the town; certainly a bear is shown on the earliest known town seal (1224), while live bears have been maintained at the charges of the town since 1513.

This becomes divided into two, the right half forming the cavity of the rostrum, while the left acquires an opening to the exterior, and forms the praeoral pit of the larva, which subsequently gives rise to special ciliated tracts in the vestibule of the mouth mentioned above.

The consequence was that the two leading members of the cabinet, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, exponents for the most part of diametrically opposite political doctrines, soon occupied the position, to use the words of one of them, of "two game-cocks in a pit."

Human sacrifices to Baal were common, and, though in Phoenicia proper there is no proof that the victims were burned alive, the Carthaginians had a brazen image of Baal, from whose downturned hands the children slid into a pit of fire; and the story that Minos had a brazen man who pressed people to his glowing breast points to similar rites in Crete, where the child-devouring Minotaur must certainly be connected with Baal and the favourite sacrifice to him of children.

The latter lay their eggs in one and the same nest, a shallow pit scraped out by their feet, with the earth heaped around to form a kind of wall against which the outermost circle of eggs rest.

But some were essentially indigenous, and he observed a singular character given to the fauna by the presence of certain Eastern forms, unknown in other parts of Persia, such as the tiger, a remarkable deer of the IndoMalayan group, allied to Cervus axis, and a pit viper (Halys).

The deposit was worked as an underground mine until 1957, when it became an open pit mine.

A pit called the "Maelstrom," in Croghan's Hall, is the spot most remote from the mouth of Gerta's Grotto Creighton's Dome Index Hovey's Cathedral 0' Martel Nelson's Domes p a e t a j-?l . ?Einbigler Dome Edna's Dome Galloway's Dome Chief City Violet.

There are some fine stalactites near this pit, and others in the Fairy Grotto and in Pensico Avenue; but, considering the magnitude of Mammoth Cave, its poverty of stalactitic ornamentation is remarkable.

The one known as the Bottomless Pit was for many years a barrier to all further exploration, but it is now crossed by a wooden bridge.

In the next stage of complication, seen in the supernumerary (seventh) ocellus of Charybdaea, the patch of pigmented and sensory epithelium is pushed in to form a little pit, in the T Aurelia aurita.

The drawing represents a section, taken in marginal lappets forming pit.

As a further advance, the pit becomes widened out into a cup, as in the lateral ocelli of Charybdaea.