pit | (noun) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate | Synonyms: quarry, stone pit |
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(noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: colliery |
(noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pitfall |
(noun) lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers | Synonyms: orchestra pit |
(noun) (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled | - |
(noun) (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on | - |
(noun) an enclosure in which animals are made to fight | - |
(noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition |
(noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: cavity |
(noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, stone |
(noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: fossa |
pita | (noun) usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling | Synonyms: pocket bread |
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pitahaya | (noun) highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach | - |
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(noun) cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit | Synonyms: Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya cactus |
pitanga | (noun) Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida | Synonyms: Eugenia uniflora, Surinam cherry |
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pitch | (noun) the action or manner of throwing something | - |
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(noun) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump | Synonyms: auction pitch |
(noun) a high approach shot in golf | Synonyms: pitch shot |
(noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: delivery |
(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitching |
(noun) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration | - |
(noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: rake, slant |
(noun) promotion by means of an argument and demonstration | Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk |
(noun) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk) | - |
(noun) a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer | Synonyms: soccer field |
(noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: tar |
pitchblende | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: uraninite |
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pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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(noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
(noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
(noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
(noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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pitching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team | - |
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(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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(noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
pitchstone | (noun) dark acid granitic glass | - |
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pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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(noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
pith | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, substance, sum |
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(noun) soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants | - |
pithead | (noun) the entrance to a coal mine | - |
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pithiness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness |
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pithouse | (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, dugout, pit-house |
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pitilessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: ruthlessness |
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(noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, ruthlessness |
pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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piton | (noun) a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold | - |
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pitprop | (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: sprag |
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pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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pitta | (noun) any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills | - |
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pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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pituitary | (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
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pity | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: compassion |
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(noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: shame |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, ruth |
pityriasis | (noun) any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin | - |
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