Definition: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Similar words: work, workplace
Definition: a place where work is done
Usage: he arrived at work early today
Synonyms: orchestra pit, pit
Definition: lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
Similar words: area
Definition: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
Usage: the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants
Synonyms: pit, quarry, stone pit
Definition: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
Usage: a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
Similar words: excavation
Definition: a hole in the ground made by excavating
Definition: a trap in the form of a concealed hole
Similar words: trap
Definition: a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
Synonyms: pit
Definition: (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
Similar words: area
Definition: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
Usage: the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants
Synonyms: pit
Definition: (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
Similar words: area
Definition: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
Usage: the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants
Synonyms: pit
Definition: an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
Similar words: enclosure
Definition: a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
Synonyms: nether region, perdition, Hell, infernal region, Inferno, pit
Definition: (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
Usage: Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton; a demon from the depths of the pit; Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson
Similar words: imaginary place, fictitious place, mythical place
Definition: a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
Definition: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
Usage: they dug a pit to bury the body
Synonyms: endocarp, stone, pit
Definition: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
Usage: you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
Similar words: seed vessel, pericarp
Definition: the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
Definition: a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
Similar words: cavity, cavum, bodily cavity
Definition: (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
Similar words: incurvation, incurvature, concave shape, concavity
Definition: a shape that curves or bends inward
Definition: remove the pits from
Usage: pit plums and cherries
Similar words: remove, withdraw, take, take away
Definition: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Usage: remove a threat; remove a wrapper; Remove the dirty dishes from the table; take the gun from your pocket; This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Synonyms: pit, play off, oppose, match
Definition: set into opposition or rivalry
Usage: 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
Definition: oppose, as in hostility or a competition
Usage: You must confront your opponent; Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring; The two enemies finally confronted each other
Synonyms: scar, mark, pit, pock
Definition: mark with a scar
Usage: The skin disease scarred his face permanently
Similar words: deface, disfigure, blemish
Definition: mar or spoil the appearance of
Usage: scars defaced her cheeks; The vandals disfigured the statue