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Pit

A large hole in the ground.

Trench

A long, narrow ditch
Dig a trench around the perimeter of the fire

Pit

A hollow or indentation in a surface.

Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).In geology, trenches result from erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates. In civil engineering, trenches are often created to install underground utilities such as gas, water, power and communication lines.

Pit

An area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled
He had a flat tyre when he came into the pits
The pit lane
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Trench

A long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone
The Marianas Trench

Pit

An orchestra pit.

Trench

A trench coat.

Pit

A part of the floor of a stock exchange in which a particular stock or commodity is traded
The trading pit of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange
Pooled commodity funds liquidated positions in the corn and soybean pits

Trench

Dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)
She trenched the terrace to a depth of 6 feet
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Pit

An enclosure in which animals are made to fight
A bear pit

Trench

Border closely on; encroach on
This would surely trench very far on the dignity and liberty of citizens

Pit

A person's bed.

Trench

A deep furrow or ditch.

Pit

A person's armpit.

Trench

A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.

Pit

The stone of a fruit.

Trench

A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.

Pit

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with
You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions

Trench

To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).

Pit

Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of
Rain poured down, pitting the bare earth

Trench

To place in a trench
Trench a pipeline.

Pit

Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance
He pitted on lap 36 with sudden engine trouble

Trench

To dig a trench or trenches.

Pit

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Trench

To encroach. Often used with on or upon
"The bishop exceeded his powers, and trenched on those of the king" (Francis Parkman).

Pit

A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.

Trench

To verge or border. Often used with on or upon
"a broad playfulness that trenched on buffoonery" (George Meredith).

Pit

An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.

Trench

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

Pit

The shaft of a mine.

Trench

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

Pit

A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.

Trench

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

Pit

A small indentation in a surface
Pits in a windshield.

Trench

(informal) A trench coat.

Pit

A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.

Trench

To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

Pit

A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.

Trench

To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

Pit

(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.

Trench

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

Pit

(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.

Trench

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Pit

(Informal) An armpit.

Trench

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

Pit

An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.

Trench

To cut furrows or ditches in.
To trench land for the purpose of draining it

Pit

The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.

Trench

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To trench a garden for certain crops

Pit

Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.

Trench

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
The wide wound that the boar had trenchedIn his soft flank.
This weak impress of love is as a figureTrenched in ice, which with an hour's heatDissolves to water, and doth lose its form.

Pit

The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.

Trench

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Pit

The gambling area of a casino.

Trench

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Pit

A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.

Trench

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Pit

Often pits(Sports) An area beside an auto racecourse where cars may be refueled or serviced during a race
Pulled into the pits to have the tires rotated.

Trench

To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?

Pit

Hell. Used with the.

Trench

To have direction; to aim or tend.
Like powerful armies, trenching at a townBy slow and silent, but resistless, sap.

Pit

A miserable or depressing place or situation.

Trench

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Pit

Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the
"New York politics are the pits" (Washington Star).

Trench

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she.

Pit

(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.

Trench

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Pit

The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.

Trench

A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Pit

To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars
A surface pitted with craters.

Trench

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Pit

To set in direct opposition or competition
A war that pitted brother against brother.

Trench

Any long ditch cut in the ground

Pit

To place, bury, or store in a pit.

Trench

Impinge or infringe upon;
This impinges on my rights as an individual
This matter entrenches on other domains

Pit

To become marked with pits.

Trench

Fortify by surrounding with trenches;
He trenched his military camp

Pit

To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.

Trench

Cut or carve deeply into;
Letters trenched into the stone

Pit

To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.

Trench

Set, plant, or bury in a trench;
Trench the fallen soldiers
Trench the vegetables

Pit

To extract the pit from (a fruit).

Trench

Cut a trench in, as for drainage;
Ditch the land to drain it
Trench the fields

Pit

A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.

Trench

Dig a trench or trenches;
The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench

Pit

(motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.

Pit

(music) 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.

Pit

A mine.

Pit

(archaeology) 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.

Pit

(trading) A trading pit.

Pit

The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.

Pit

(colloquial) Armpit.

Pit

(aviation) A luggage hold.

Pit

(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

Pit

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

Pit

The grave, underworld or Hell.

Pit

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

Pit

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.

Pit

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

Pit

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

Pit

(American football) The center of the line.

Pit

(hospital slang) The emergency department.

Pit

A bed.

Pit

(informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
This house is a total pit. We've got to get out of here!
Get back to the pit, dish bitch!

Pit

A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.

Pit

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

Pit

(military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

Pit

(informal) A pit bull terrier.

Pit

(transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

Pit

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

Pit

(transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?

Pit

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

Pit

(transitive) 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.

Pit

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
Tumble me into some loathsome pit.

Pit

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
He keepth back his soul from the pit.

Pit

A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits.

Pit

A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

Pit

Formerly, that part of a theater, 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 theater.

Pit

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

Pit

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

Pit

To place or put into a pit or hole.
They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.

Pit

To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

Pit

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

Pit

A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);
They dug a pit to bury the body

Pit

A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

Pit

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;
You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking

Pit

A trap in the form of a concealed hole

Pit

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
A British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'

Pit

Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers

Pit

A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Pit

Set into opposition or rivalry;
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

Pit

Mark with a scar;
The skin disease scarred his face permanently

Pit

Remove the pits from;
Pit plums and cherries

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