| 单词 | pit |
| 释义 | pit (once / 279 pages) 1nv 2nv 3nv A pit is a hole in the ground, like the one in Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” that the narrator tries not to fall into. A pit can also be smaller indentation. There’s also a pit hiding inside a peach. Pit is a word with a wide variety of meanings. There's the pit you dig on the beach as a moat for your sandcastle, and the pit a hunter digs for trapping an animal. Then there's the sunken area of a performance hall where musicians play, an orchestra pit, and the area that's reserved for certain activity, like the trading pit at a stock exchange. Finally, a pit is also a large, hard seed — like a peach pit. WORD FAMILYpit: pits, pitted, pitting+/pitting: pittings USAGE EXAMPLESThe restrictions include bans on wood in fireplaces and outdoor fire pits. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) The biggest game of the week pits the Packers against the Lions for the NFC North title. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Their showdown pits the Tigers’ mostly aerial attack against a Buckeyes offense that dominates with a punishing ground game and the run-pass option. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) they dug a pit to bury the body Syn|Hypo|Hyper cavity trou-de-loup a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy barbecue pita pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat borrow pita pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site divot(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke fire pita pit whose floor is incandescent lava quicksanda pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down sandpita large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug sawpita pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw tar pita natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved hole, hollow a depression hollowed out of solid matter 2n a trap in the form of a concealed hole Syn|Hyper pitfall trap a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned 3n a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it Syn|Hyper colliery work, workplace a place where work is done 4n a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit' Syn|Hypo|Hyper quarry, stone pit chalk pit, chalkpit a quarry for chalk gravel pita quarry for gravel excavation a hole in the ground made by excavating 5n lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers Syn|Hyper orchestra pit area a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function 6n (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on Hyper area a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function 7n (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled Hyper area a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function 8n a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) Syn|Hypo|Hyper fossa glenoid cavity, glenoid fossa the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint glenoid fossa, mandibular fossaa deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandible epigastric fossa, pit of the stomacha slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus) bodily cavity, cavity, cavum (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvaturea shape that curves or bends inward 9v mark with a scar 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper mark, pock, scar mark, nock, score make small marks into the surface of pockmark mark with or as if with pockmarks cicatrise, cicatrizeform a scar, after an injury blemish, deface, disfigure mar or spoil the appearance of 1n (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment a demon from the depths of the pit Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, perdition Heaven the abode of God and the angels Gehenna, Tartarus a place where the wicked are punished after death hellfire, red regiona place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings 2n an enclosure in which animals are made to fight Hypo|Hyper cockpit a pit for cockfights enclosure a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose 3v set into opposition or rivalry 3pit a chess player against the Russian champion Syn|Hyper match, oppose, play off confront, face oppose, as in hostility or a competition 1n the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed Syn|Hypo|Hyper endocarp, stone peach pit the stone seed of a peach cherry stonethe stone seed of a cherry pericarp, seed vessel the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary 2v remove the pits from pit plums and cherries Syn|Hyper stone remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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