• Albanian: gropë
• Czech: jáma
• Dutch: kuil , put
• Esperanto: kavo, fosaĵo
• Finnish: kuoppa
• French: fosse
• German: Grube
• Greek: τρίπα
• Hawaiian: lua
• Hungarian: gödör, verem
• Indonesian: lubang
• Italian: fossa
• Malayalam: കുഴി (kuzhi)
• Maori: rua
• Romanian: groapă
• Spanish: foso

• Dutch: pit
• Finnish: kivi (hedelmässä, 1), onkalo (2), varikko (3)
• German: Kern
• Greek: κουκούτσι
• Telugu: గొయ్యి (goyyi)

Etymology 2

From pit

Verb

1. To bring into opposition, as in "to pit one's wits against someone".
2. To make pits in.

   Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

3. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

   One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.

4. In the context of "intransitive|motor racing": To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Translations

• Finnish: panna tappelemaan (1)

Related terms

• pit stop (3)

Anagrams

• tip

Catalan

Etymology

Latin pectus. Compare Italian petto, Portuguese peito, Romanian piept, Spanish pecho

Noun

pit

1. breast

Dutch

Noun

pit

1. A seed inside a fruit.
2. Spirit
   • 'Hij heeft pit' : He has something going for him.

Pronunciation

• pɪt

Irish

Noun

pit

1. vulva

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

• /pɪt/

Verb

1. to put

Synonyms

• putt

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pit , gen pite, pl pitean

1. The female external genitalia, the vulva.
2. cunt, pussy

Pit may refer to:

• Pit, any high walled depression in the ground, such as a quarry or (in Britain) an opencast coal mine
• Pit or Colliery, a deep-shaft underground coal mine
• Burial alive as a fictional method of execution based on The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pit, the single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit
• Pits, the lowest mountain ranges of the polish Carpathians.
• Pit, the 750nm depressions etched on a compact disc for storing data in binary digit 1
• Pit, the part of a racing track where pit stops are conducted
• Pit (open outcry), an area in a futures market where trading takes place
• Pit, an area in a casino surrounded by gaming tables. Managed by a Pit boss
• pit, the core of a nuclear weapon
• Trapping pit, designed to catch animals

As a proper noun, Pit can refer to:

• The PIT maneuver, used by police to force a car off the road
• the "Bottomless Pit", Hell
• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game based on commodities exchanges
• Pits (game), a cross between whist and rummy
• Pit (Nintendo), star of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Kid Icarus
• University Arena, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque
• McArthur Court, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of Oregon
• Programmable Interval Timer, a computer device

Pit can be short for:

• Circle pit
• Pittsburgh International Airport whose code is PIT
• Armpit, a part of the body
• Ball pit, a play structure
• Mosh pit, the location for a type of dancing
• Pit bull, a type of dog
• Front ensemble/Front line, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Orchestra pit
• PIT, acronym/abbreviation for Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
• PIT, acronym/abbreviation for The People's Improv Theater

PIT can refer to:

• Passive Integrated Transponder a small elecrtonic device for identifying animals (subcutaneous)
• Pac-In-Time, a 1995 video game featuring Pac-Man
• Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail, a communist party in Senegal
• Personal Income Tax
• Phase inversion temperature
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Common abbreviation used for Pittsburgh Sports
  • Pittsburgh International Airport
  • Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States; Amtrak station code PIT
• Pit River, in California, United States
• Powered Industrial Truck, see forklift truck
• Pressure Indicator Transmitter, an abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Programmable Interval Timer, a timer available in the entire PC architecture
• Pulsed inductive thruster
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• PIT-1, a gene
• PIT or WF-31, a cocaine analogue

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