Tra từ pit - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pit [pit pits pitted pitting] noun, verb BrE [pɪt] NAmE [pɪt]
noun

DEEP HOLE
1. countable a large deep hole in the ground
•We dug a deep pit in the yard.
•The body had been dumped in a pit.
2. countable (especially in compounds)a deep hole in the ground from which minerals are dug out
•a chalk/gravel pit

MINE
3. countable = ↑coal mine
•pit closures
• (BrE)He went down the pit (= started work as a ↑miner ) when he left school.

IN SKIN
4. countable a small shallow hole in the surface of sth, especially a mark left on the surface of the skin by some disease, such as ↑chickenpox
see also ↑pitted

IN FRUIT
5. countable (especially NAmE) = ↑stone (⁵)
•a peach pit

IN MOTOR RACING
6. the pitsplural (BrE) (NAmE the pit countable)a place near the track where cars can stop for fuel, new tyres, etc. during a race
see also ↑pit stop

IN THEATRE
7. countable = ↑orchestra pit

PART OF BODY
8. countable (NAmE, informal) = ↑armpit

IN BUSINESS
9. countable (NAmE)the area of a ↑stock exchange where a particular product is traded
•the corn pit
compare ↑floor (⁶)
see also ↑sandpit
more at a bottomless pit (of sth) at ↑bottomless

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 4 and n. senses 6 to 9 v. sense 1 Old English pytt West Germanic Dutch put German Pfütze Latin puteus ‘well, shaft’ n. sense 5 and v. sense 2 mid 19th cent. Dutch ↑pith

Example Bank:
•Most boys in the town worked in the pits.
•There's no more work in these pit villages.
•They extract the mineral from open pits and underground mines.
•a disused gravel pit
•The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit.
•cherry/peach pits
Idioms: ↑pit of the stomach ▪ ↑the pits
Derived: ↑pit somebody against something

verb (-tt-)usually passive

MAKE HOLES
1. ~ sth to make marks or holes on the surface of sth
•The surface of the moon is pitted with craters.
•Smallpox scars had pitted his face.

FRUIT
2. (BrE also stone)~ sth to remove the stone from the inside of a fruit
•pitted olives
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 4 and n. senses 6 to 9 v. sense 1 Old English pytt West Germanic Dutch put German Pfütze Latin puteus ‘well, shaft’ n. sense 5 and v. sense 2 mid 19th cent. Dutch ↑pith

See also: ↑stone